Personal Life and Family
Hart lives in Hammersmith, west London.
Hart's father is retired Royal Navy officer Captain David Hart Dyke who was commanding officer of HMS Coventry when it was sunk by the Argentinians in the 1982 Falklands conflict, as a result of which he was badly burned trying to escape the stricken warship. His later career saw him serving as Aide-de-Camp to Queen Elizabeth II, 1988-89. He retired from active naval service in 1990 with the rank of Captain. He used his transcripts to write a book chronicling the events surrounding Coventry's sinking. The work, published in 2007, is titled Four Weeks in May: The Loss of HMS Coventry A Captain's Story. The book formed the basis for BBC2 documentary, Sea of Fire, first shown on BBC2 on 1 June 2007.
Her mother, Diana Margaret, is the daughter of Sir William Luce (1907–1977), who was the British Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden, 1956-60.
Hart's uncle is The Rt Hon The Lord Luce, a former Conservative MP and Minister, later HM Governor and Commander in Chief of Gibraltar (1997–2000) and Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household, 2000-2006.
On her mother's side, her great-grandfather was Vice Admiral Sir Trevylyan Napier, who was the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station (1919–1920), while her great-great-grandfather was Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet, who was the Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom (1901–1920).
Her great-uncle and the brother of her maternal grandfather was Admiral Sir David Luce, who served as First Sea Lord. Her great-great-uncle was Major-General Sir Richard Harman Luce, who served as Member of Parliament for Derby from 1924-1929.
Hart's patrilineal great-great-great-great-grandfather was Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5th Baronet (1767-1846) whilst her distant cousin, the 10th and present baronet, Sir David Hart Dyke lives in Canada. Hart's 1st cousin is modern-day plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke. She has a sister, Alice Louisa Hart Dyke (born 1975).
In her early twenties, Hart had an unsuccessful trial at Queens Park Rangers Ladies. She revealed this during Would I Lie to You.
In July 2012, Miranda announced she was writing a book that hit the shelves in October. The book is called 'Is It Just Me?' and features stories, anecdotes and life advice delivered in her own classic style. She used Twitter to give the public a chance to appear in the book, if they contributed anecdotes to @NoItsUsToo, using the #isitjustme hashtag.
Read more about this topic: Miranda Hart
Famous quotes containing the words personal, life and/or family:
“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature—if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you—know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)