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==Early life==
Born in [[Paddington]], West London, to a British military officer father Paul Wade-Brown,<ref name="sister">{{Cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8021813/Wellington-Mayor-finds-secret-sister|title=Wellington Mayor finds secret sister |last=Macdonald |first=Nikki |date=1 December 2012 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |access-date=8 July 2016}}</ref> Wade-Brown grew up in a council flat.<ref name="new mayor">{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/local-elections-2010/4228521/New-mayor-for-capital|title=New mayor for Wellington|date=13 October 2010 |work=[[The Dominion Post (Wellington)|The Dominion Post]]|access-date=13 October 2010}}</ref> She attended [[The Holt School]] in [[Wokingham]], [[Berkshire]], England. After school, she took a gap year in [[Cape Coast]], [[Ghana]], then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the [[University of Nottingham]]. She started her professional life with [[IBM]] in the United Kingdom,<ref name="Elections bio">{{cite web|title=Celia Wade-Brown |url=http://www.elections2010.co.nz/2010/candidates/celia-wade-brown |publisher=Election NZ |access-date=26 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004220954/http://www.elections2010.co.nz/2010/candidates/celia-wade-brown |archive-date=4 October 2010 }}</ref> and moved to Wellington in 1983.<ref name="new mayor" />
As an adult, Wade-Brown discovered and connected with two half-sisters.<ref name='sister'/> One half-sister, Gitta Rupp, was an [[War children#British|Austrian war child]] born to her father and an Austrian mother.<ref name="half sister">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32972893|title=Occupation children shunned in post-war Germany and Austria|date=4 June 2015|work=BBC News|access-date=4 June 2015}}</ref>
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