Annabel 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 First Eleven.

Born in London, she is the eldest daughter of the politician and former deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine and Lady Heseltine, née Anne Williams. She was educated at Cobham Hall, Tudor Hall and Stowe School. At Stowe she achieved a B, a C, and two Ds in her A-levels, grades which in 2001 she described as "atrocious by today's standards". She suspects that, like her children, she is dyslexic. In 1985 Heseltine graduated from Durham University with a degree in Economic History. Later in life she obtained an MA in Wildlife Management and Conservation at Reading University in 2006.

While she was at university, Heseltine trained as a fashion buyer at Bloomingdales in New York, with a view to pursuing a career in fashion. However, after two years working in advertising with the ad agency, Darcy Masius, Benton and Bowles in London and six months working for Restaurant and Hotel PR agency, Alan Crompton-Batt Associates, she settled on journalism as a career.

Aged 22, she became the Assistant-editor for the Hong Kong Tatler in 1986. In 1990, Heseltine was contracted to the Daily Mail's YOU magazine. Subsequently, she worked for The Times, Sunday Times'' and The Daily Telegraph. She has also contributed to magazines including Vogue, The Economist, the New Statesman,Earth Magazine, Harpers and Queen and Hi-Life. Following her coverage of the outbreak of Rwandan civil war, when she was one of the first journalists to enter the country, she briefly joined the news room of The Sunday Times as a reporter before returning to feature writing again.

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