[2] Her father was a solicitor, political activist, and left-wing journalist who served as secretary of the Labour Research Department.
She was educated at St Paul's School, London, and graduated from the University of Oxford's Balliol College with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
[4] In March 2014, she and her partner founded Rollins Wood, a 7-acre community woodland in Marple Bridge, planting 1,200 trees the following year.
Her claim to the peerage was approved by the Lord Chancellor, Dominic Raab, in 2022 after she had changed her gender identity.
[8] The Daily Telegraph suggested she could stand in the by-election for the House of Lords in 2023 to replace Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland,[2] but she did not do so.
[11] Conservative politician Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, and Charlotte Carew Pole, the daughter-in-law of Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, both called into question the validity of Lady Simon's peerage,[2] since she is only able to hold the peerage due to being assigned male at birth.