Born in Oswaldkirk, North Yorkshire, her father was the sculptor John Bunting, who also taught drawing at the Catholic independent school Ampleforth College. The fourth of five children, Madeleine was the youngest daughter from his marriage to Romola Farquharson; the couple separated in 1978. She was educated at Richmond Convent, North Yorkshire, and Brighton, Hove & Sussex VI Form College, followed by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then Harvard University, where Bunting read History, and received a Knox postgraduate fellowship to study Politics and to teach.
Madeleine
Romola Farquharson