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==Early life and education==
Daphne Park was born to John Alexander and Doreen Gwynneth Park. Her father had contracted tuberculosis as a young man and was sent to Africa for rest and recuperation. He moved from South Africa to [[Nyasaland]] (now [[Malawi]]), and served as an intelligence officer during [[World War II]]. Thereafter he owned a tobacco plantation <ref>{{cite web |last1=Roth |first1=Andrew |title=Lady Park of Monmouth obituary Senior MI6 officer, diplomat and Tory peer, she was known as the 'Queen of Spies' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/daphne-park-obituary |website=The Guardian |date=28 March 2010 |access-date=18 January 2021}}</ref> and as an alluvial gold prospector in [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]] (now [[Tanzania]]). When Daphne was six months old she travelled to Africa with her mother to join him there.<ref name="DT">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/7521245/Baroness-Park-of-Monmouth.html|title=Obituary: Baroness Park of Monmouth|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=25 March 2010|access-date=22 February 2011|location=London}}</ref> Park had a brother, David, who died aged 14.
When Park was 11, she returned to England and was educated at [[Rosa Bassett School]] in [[Streatham]] and at [[Somerville College, Oxford]], where she graduated with a B.A. in modern languages in 1943. She was further educated at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], where she received a Certificate of Competent Knowledge in Russian in 1952.
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