Antoinette Fernandez’ path into politics was the opposite of the rags-to-riches experience many of her peers had. As the daughter of the Queen of Lagos and her diplomat husband, the Nigerian-born writer, activist and newly-elected Green Party candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington had a privileged upbringing, boarding at Millfield School in Somerset before a master’s degree at the London Film School and starting out as a film director. Fernandez’ father Oloye Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez of Dudley — the late business magnate and diplomat, once considered one of the richest men in Africa — was helping to fund her...