Early Life
Featherstone was born and brought up in North London to a British Jewish family, and educated at the Highgate Primary School, the independent South Hampstead High School (then a direct grant grammar school) and gained a Diploma in Communication and Design at Oxford Polytechnic. Her family's wealth is generated from a family business started by her parents - the Ryness chain of hardware and electrical shops in London.
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