Editing Posy Simmonds (section)

==Early life==
Posy Simmonds was born in [[Berkshire]] on 9 August 1945, the daughter of Reginald A. C. Simmonds and Betty Cahusac.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Simmonds, Posy, (born 9 Aug. 1945), freelance illustrator/cartoonist, since 1969|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-34878|access-date=2021-08-09|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U34878|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref> Her brother is the Conservative politician [[Richard Simmonds]]. She was educated at [[Queen Anne's School]], [[Caversham, Berkshire|Caversham]]. She studied at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] before returning to London to attend [[Central School of Art & Design]], where she received a BA in Art and Design.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2045620.stm |title=BBC News, June 2002 |publisher=BBC News |date=14 June 2002 |access-date=5 August 2009}}</ref> In 1974, she married [[Richard Hollis|Richard Graham Hollis]].<ref name=":0" />