About Oona King
Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow (born 22 October 1967), is a British business executive and former Labour Party politician. She was a Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 until 2005; and a member of the House of Lords from 2011 to 2024. == Early life == Oona King was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Preston King, an African-American academic, and his Jewish British wife, Hazel King (née Stern), a social justice activist. A maternal aunt is the medical doctor Miriam Stoppard and the actor Ed Stoppard is a cousin. Miriam Stoppard was successively married to the playwright Tom Stoppard (from 1972 until their divorce in 1992), and businessman Christopher Hogg (from 1997 until his death in 2021). During these respective periods of marriage, both men were Oona King's uncles. On her father's side, she comes from a line of American civil rights activists and successful entrepreneurs. Her paternal grandfather, civil rights activist Clennon Washington King Sr., and his wife had a daughter and seven sons, including her uncle C. B. King, a pioneering civil rights attorney in Albany, Georgia. King's maternal grandfather was born Jewish, and her maternal grandmother converted to Judaism. Through her maternal grandmother, King is a first cousin, once removed, of Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton.
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