Her father worked for a time in France, where Hart received her early education at the Lycée Molière and Cours Fénelon in Paris.
[4] Although Hart admitted to having had a meeting with spymaster Arnold Deutsch early in her career, she claimed not to have been recruited or passed any confidential information to him or to other Communist Party members.
In 1983, an edition of the BBC's Timewatch programme revealed that she had been interviewed in the 1960s by Peter Wright and others about her political activities, and this led to controversy since her husband was himself a former intelligence officer.
[1] The BBC revelations about her Communist associations led to an article in The Sunday Times, referring to her as "a Russian spy".
[3] Herbert Hart admitted having little interest in sex,[3] and suspected that his wife was having affairs with other men including Sir Isaiah Berlin.