She was educated at St James's School, Malvern, England, whose headmistress was a friend of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, founders of the Girl Guides movement.

[6] When the war began she joined the Foreign Office Post and Telecommunications department, then transferred to the Imperial Censorship Service headquarters in Liverpool.

Her role – part of Britain’s counter-espionage operations – was to intercept mail from the US bound for Germany.

After the war she worked for the United Kingdom Foreign Office, assisting in the restoration of British postal services around the world.

She assisted David Cannadine in the writing of his book Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain (1994).

She assisted Margaret Bird in the research of her four-volume work Mary Hardy and Her World (2020), writing the preface to each volume.

[11][4] She held several Guiding positions in Norfolk: Guide Captain, Ranger Captain, Ranger advisor, district commissioner, County camp and International advisor, trainer and Norfolk County xommissioner from 1958-1960.

In 1999 she was presented with one of the organisation’s highest awards, a silver trowel and fork, in recognition of over 40 years of participation.