[citation needed] In 2007, Lycett Green attributed to Ernest Betjemann, said by her father to be a hater of verse, a poem found in the log book of a yacht he had sailed on the Norfolk Broads in the 1920s.

In her teens she rode ponies competitively; on one occasion, her father, having spelt out his surname for the purpose of sending a telegram, was asked by a local telephonist if he were "any relation of the little girl who wins all the prizes at the horse shows".

There she met John Wells and Richard Ingrams, then undergraduates at Oxford University, who, shortly afterwards, founded the satirical magazine Private Eye, to which she became a regular contributor.

[9] On 25 May 1963, Candida Betjeman married Rupert Lycett Green, a rising figure in the tailoring business, whose shop Blades opened first in Dover Street, London and later in Savile Row.

[11] During the "swinging" sixties, the Lycett Green family was associated with members of London’s "in" crowd, Blades being frequented by many names of the period, including the Beatles, actor Terence Stamp and John Aspinall, founder of the Clermont Club.

[citation needed] In an article in Country Life in 2003, Lycett Green identified several aspects of English life which had become "universal fixtures in our mind's eye": cricket on the village green, Trooping the Colour, bands playing in a town park, the Women's Institute singing Jerusalem, pearly kings and queens at the Lord Mayor's Show and discussions about the weather over a pint of beer in the local pub.

There were excursions by train from London to Bristol and, through "Metro-land", to Quainton Road; Lycett Green unveiled a commemorative plaque at Marylebone station to mark Betjeman's fond association with the railways.

Lycett Green wrote about the organisation of these various events, noting the intricacies of the rail schedules ("How long will the train stop at Ruislip so that [the poem] Middlesex can be read over the tannoy?

[18] In 2007, Lycett Green was a member of "an alarmingly grown up" panel of judges to select a sculptor (Martin Jennings) for the Statue of John Betjeman that was erected on the concourse of the redeveloped London St Pancras station.