Ian Hislop is married to Victoria Hislop. She is an English author. She was born in Bromley, Kent and raised in Tonbridge and attended the Tonbridge Grammar School.
In 2009, she donated the short story, Aflame in Athens to Oxfam’s Ox-Tales project, four collections of British stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the Fire collection. Hislop has a particular affection for Greece.
She visits the country often for research and other reasons and has a second home on the Island, Crete.
In 2020, Hislop was granted honorary Greek citizenship for promoting modern Greek history and culture. The following year, she was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, the Greek version of Strictly Come Dancing.