[2] She was the second child of Margaret (Maggie) Campbell Munro and Georg Friedrich Gotthilf Fuchs, Premier Lieutenant of the Landwehr and descendant of the Central European aristocratic family Monod de Froideville.

Settle intended to read History at the University of Oxford, and won a bursary to Somerville College, but was unable to attend because of lack of funds.

[citation needed] Alfred died of tuberculosis in 1925, leaving Settle with their two young children Margaret and John.

[4] Under her management, the magazine first employed influential writers including Virginia Woolf, Edith Sitwell and Vita Sackville-West.

[5] Settle left Vogue in 1935 under strained circumstances, spending the subsequent year writing the book Clothes Line, published in 1937.