Patricia Honor Greene was born in , England in 1931. She is the youngest of two children to Josie Greene (née Johnson), a housewife, and Edward Greene, an engineer and former piano salesman. She has an older sister. Greene and her family moved to Champion Street in the area, before moving to Kirk Street in . She has recalled experiences of her mother having extramarital affairs, in which she would bring men to the family home and order Patricia not to tell their father.