Hughes was educated at the private Notting Hill & Ealing High School, in Ealing and won a scholarship to read Ancient and Modern History at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford where she received an upper second degree.
Hughes was educated at the private Notting Hill & Ealing High School. This was in Ealing. Hughes won a scholarship to read Ancient and Modern History at St Hilda's College where she received an upper second degree. St Hilda's College was University of Oxford.