[1] Her parents married in 1918, but divorced in 1928 after her mother, the daughter of an Italian army lieutenant-general, Conte Michele Salazar (descendant of a Spanish nobleman from the times of the Spanish presence in Italy), left her 66-year-old father for a 27-year-old army officer, later Brigadier William Carr CVO DSO.
[2] Newland married a distant relative, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, at the Brompton Oratory on 30 April 1943; he was then serving as a lieutenant in the Scots Guards.
The Kerrs also owned Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire but they later retired to Ferniehirst Castle in Roxburghshire after dividing the other estates between their sons.
Their eldest daughter, Lady Mary Kerr, was a folksinger and won a silver medal in skiing at the 1969 British Commonwealth Games, and later married Charles von Westenholz.
With Odette Hallowes and Lady Georgina Coleridge[3] she founded the annual Women of the Year Lunches[4] at the Savoy Hotel in 1955, in aid of the Greater London Fund for the Blind and other charities.