Personal Life
Harman married Jack Dromey in 1982 in Brent, London, after meeting him on the picket line of the Grunwick dispute in 1977; she was legal advisor to the Grunwick Strike Committee. They have two sons (born February 1983 and November 1984) and a daughter (born January 1987), with the latter having the surname "Harman". Labour colleague Patricia Hewitt is godmother to one of her children. She has a house in Suffolk, in addition to her home in Herne Hill, South London.
In 1996, Harman sent her younger son Joseph to St Olave's Grammar School, Orpington a selective grammar school after sending her elder son Harry to the selective, Roman Catholic London Oratory School, a grant-maintained school. Harman said: "This is a state school that other children in my son's class will be going to... And admission is open to every child in Southwark irrespective of money or who their parents are".
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