Early Life
Freda Bedi was born Freda Houlston, in Derby, England, February 5, 1911, and was the daughter of Francis Edwin Houlston and Nellie Diana Harrison.
The family appears in the 1911 Census when Freda was two months old. Her father was killed in the First World War, in 1918, and her mother remarried in 1920, to Frank Norman Swan. She studied at Parkfield Cedars School, and then at St Hugh's College, Oxford University where she obtained a MA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and encountered her future husband, a Sikh from the Bedi family, linked to a Sikh clan tracing back to Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Baba Pyare Lal Bedi (1909–1993), who was an author and philosopher from the Sikh faith. She also studied a few years at Sorbonne, Paris.
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