Early Life
Runcie is the son of Robert Runcie, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Rosalind Runcie. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Marlborough College, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He gained a first class degree in English from Cambridge University in 1981.
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