BEFORE 2000
Tuggy Noble grows up on the Achadunan Estate, a farm in rural Glen Fyne, Argyll. The 4500-acre estate includes a salmon river, peat-rich hills, habitat for wild red deer and grazing land for a herd of highland cows.
In her teens, Tuggy moves to London where she eschews the debutante lifestyle and meets Jonny Delap, an English businessman. They are married in 1967, and raise two sons, Jamie and Michael in Hampshire.