Judith Tebbutt was held hostage for more than six months after she was kidnapped at remote beach resort in Kenya.
The 57-year-old arrived at Heathrow's Terminal Three on a Virgin flight from Nairobi.
After landing, she was driven away in an unmarked police convoy without speaking to waiting reporters.
Mrs Tebbutt was taken from the Kiwayu Safari Village, close to the border with Somalia, in September by a gang who killed her husband David, 58.
The pair, from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, had gone there after visiting the Masai Mara game reserve and they were the resort's only guests.
Mrs Tebbutt revealed after her release she did not know her husband, who worked for publisher Faber & Faber, had been killed for several weeks.
She said in a video broadcast by the BBC: "He was a good man. That was very unfortunate, really horrible. But you just need to pick up the pieces and move on.
"I didn't know he'd died until about, I think it was two weeks from my capture. I just assumed he was alive, but then my son told me he'd died. That was difficult."
Earlier this week, Mrs Tebbutt was reunited with her son Oliver at the British High Commission in Nairobi.
It was reported the family paid a £800,000 ($1.3m) ransom for her release.
Farmhand Ali Babitu Kololo, 25, has been charged in connection with the kidnapping.
He has reportedly appeared in court in Kenya where his case was adjourned until next month.
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