[3] Born in Darlinghurst, a suburb of Sydney, to an Anglo-Irish father and a Polish mother,[4] Wyatt was adopted by a British diplomat,[5][6] and his Swiss-born wife.
[7] Wyatt was educated at the independent Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Woldingham, Surrey, and then studied English and German at Southampton University, which also included six months of study at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at the New Brunswick, New Jersey campus in the US.
After graduating from Southampton, she studied for a post-graduate diploma in print journalism at City University, London.
[8] On completion of her training, she was based in Germany between 1993 and 2000, first as the business reporter, then Berlin correspondent in the reunified German capital at the time of the withdrawal of both Russian and British occupation armies from divided Berlin and the 50th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she found out that her grandfather had been held prisoner during World War II.
[3][11] In January 2017, Wyatt travelled to Mexico for experimental treatment of her illness, involving a stem-cell transplant.