Family
Penelope Tree is the only child of Ronald, a journalist, investor and British MP, and Marietta Tree, a U.S. socialite and political activist. She is the great-granddaughter of American retailer Marshall Field and of American educator Rev. Endicott Peabody. She is the half-sister of author Frances FitzGerald and a niece of former Massachusetts governor Endicott Peabody.
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