Early Life and Education
Bruce was born in Singapore, the daughter of an Englishwoman and a Scotsman who worked his way up from post boy to become managing director of a division of Unilever. Her mother Rosemary was adopted. She was educated at Gayton Primary School in Heswall, Wirral, The International School of Milan, and then the sixth form of Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross, London. It was during this later period that she modelled for the stories in the teenage girls' magazine Jackie.
Bruce studied French and Italian at Hertford College, Oxford, during which period she was a punk, and for one week had blue hair. In a programme she presented for the BBC on Leonardo Da Vinci on 30 October 2011 she demonstrated that she was comfortable interviewing both French and Italian art experts in their own languages.
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