The Honourable

Annabel Heseltine
Born
Annabel Mary Dibdin Heseltine

(1963-07-25) 25 July 1963
London, United Kingdom
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materDurham University
University of Reading
Occupation(s)Journalist, columnist, broadcaster. magazine editor
Spouse
Peter Butler
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(m. 1998; div. 2018)​
Children4
Parent(s)Michael Heseltine
Anne Heseltine

Annabel Mary Dibdin Heseltine (born 25 July 1963) is a journalist, columnist and TV and radio broadcaster. She is editor of the education magazine School House.

Early life

Born in London, she is the elder daughter of the politician and former deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine and Lady Heseltine, née Anne Williams.[1] She was educated at Cobham Hall School, Tudor Hall and Stowe School. At Stowe she achieved a B in Economics, a C in Politics, and two Ds in History and Geography in her A-levels, grades which she described as "atrocious by today's standards". She suspects that, like her children, she is dyslexic.[2] In 1985 Heseltine graduated from Durham University with a degree in Economic History. In 2006 she obtained an MSc (distinction) in Wildlife Management and Conservation at University of Reading.

Career

Heseltine trained as a fashion buyer at Bloomingdales in New York and then worked in London for advertising agency, Darcy Masius, Benton and Bowles in London and Restaurant and Hotel PR agency, Alan Crompton-Batt Associates.

Aged 22, she became the Assistant-editor for the Hong Kong Tatler. From 1990 - 2006, Heseltine worked for broadsheets and tabloids including the Daily Mail's YOU magazine, The Times, Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.[3] and also magazines including Vogue, The Economist, the New Statesman,[4] Earth Magazine, Harpers and Queen and Hi-Life. Following her coverage of the outbreak of Rwandan civil war, she became a news reporter at The Sunday Times.

Later she talked about the sorrows of an ectopic pregnancy. Her own experiences as an older mother unable to conceive a live baby[5] and subsequent walk down the IVF route was well documented.[6] Her advocacy of the legalisation of drugs led her father, while deputy prime minister, to dissociate himself from her opinions on the issue.[7]

She was one of the founding editors for the upmarket concierge company, Quintessentially.[8]

As a commentator and TV and radio broadcaster she has appeared on news and chat shows including The World at One, The Today Programme, Panorama, BBC News 24, Woman's Hour, discussing current affairs and subjects as diverse as IVF, dyslexia, Single Women, Aids in Zambia, footballers, the fur industry and the 1997 Hong Kong hand over.

Heseltine is the editor of School House Magazine, which seeks "to offer parents real insight into the world of independent education."[9]

Personal life

Heseltine is divorced and lives between London and West Wiltshire with her four children all of whom have been diagnosed with dyslexia.[10] She was previously married to Irish plastic surgeon Peter Butler.[11][12][13]

She is entitled to use the honorific style "The Honourable" by virtue of her father's barony.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Annabel Heseltine - Editor of First Eleven - Favourite Websites - The Good Web Guide". Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Julie Henry (20 November 2011). "Dyslexia may explain my school failure, says Annabel Heseltine". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Heseltine, Annabel (14 July 2006). "It's a workhorse – not a Chelsea tractor". The Daily Telegraph.
  4. ↑ Conrtributor page, New Statesman
  5. ↑ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TWIN+MIRACLES;+Two+ectopic+pregnancies,+one+miscarriage,+years+of...-a091356708
  6. ↑ Annabel Heseltine (7 August 2002). "'I was wracked with guilt'". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012.
  7. ↑ "Heseltine snubs daughter's views on drugs", The Independent, 30 March 1996
  8. ↑ Archived 31 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ "About Us - School House Magazine". Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "Heseltine's girl: My distress at watching four dyslexic children struggle to read". The Standard. 30 November 2011.
  11. ↑ "The Dubliner set to make history with the first UK face transplant - Independent.ie". 2 April 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "My husband the face swap surgeon". 13 April 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  13. ↑ times, John Elliott of the sunday (30 November 2003). "Moving On". Retrieved 29 September 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  14. ↑ "Person Page".
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