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Plum Sykes
Victoria "Plum" Sykes (born 4 December 1969) is an English-born fashion journalist, novelist and socialite.
== Early years and antecedents ==
Victoria Sykes was born in London, one of six children, and grew up in Sevenoaks, Kent. She has a twin sister, Lucy. She was nicknamed "Plum" (the Victoria plum being a variety of that fruit) as a child. Sykes described herself as a "painfully shy" child with, among other things, mousey brown hair and goofy teeth.〔Plum Sykes (2011) ''Oxford Girl''〕 Among her friends at Ide Hill Church of England Primary School was Rowan Pelling, who became the editor (or "editrice") of the ''Erotic Review''.〔See ''Daily Telegraph'', 21 April 2005〕 From there she went to a private secondary school, Walthamstow Hall,〔''Oxford Girl'', ''op.cit.''〕 where she was unhappy, and subsequently to Sevenoaks School, an independent boys' school that had begun admitting girls to the sixth form. In 1988 Sykes went up to Worcester College, Oxford, where she graduated in modern history.〔''Worcester College Who's Who'', 1998; Jonathan Bate & Jessica Goodman (2014) ''Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College''〕 She has published a short memoir of her unsettling first term at university (''Oxford Girl'', 2011).
Sykes' mother, Valerie Goad, a dress designer, separated from Sykes' father Mark while Plum was at Oxford. The effects of this left her impecunious for a while and she received assistance from Worcester to remain at the college.〔''Oxford Girl'', ''op.cit''〕 Sykes' grandfather, Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), whom she knew as "Fat Grandpa" or "F.G.", was a friend and official biographer (1975) of the novelist Evelyn Waugh〔''Oxford Girl'', ''op.cit.'' Sykes thought her grandfather glamorous for eating croissants with unsalted French butter for breakfast, which she has described as "rareties in 1980s England" ''(ibid.)''〕 and son of the diplomat Sir Mark Sykes, sixth baronet (1869–1919), associated with the so-called Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, by which Britain and France provided for the partition of the Ottoman Empire after the end of the First World War.〔Martin Evans in ''History Today'', April 2012〕 An 18th century forebear, the second baronet, Sir Christopher Sykes (1749–1801), was a major figure in the enclosure movement that transformed the appearance and management of the English countryside.
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