She was the daughter of Colonel Henry Monckton Vatcher MC, who served as a jurat in the Judiciary of Jersey, and Beryl Methwold Walrond, a granddaughter of Henry Walrond, 9th Marquis de Vallado and great-granddaughter of James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn.

[3] She focused on landscapes and portraits, often painting Gers and other departments of France, as well as Falkland war heroes and members of the British royal family.

[2][3] After her death, the Museo d'Arte di Chianciano Terme in Tuscany added a selection of her artwork to its permanent collection, in the Historical Europe wing.

[4] She was the duke's third wife, as he had been previously married to Irma de Malkhozouny and Audrey Young.

[2] She married secondly on 30 March 1968 to Peter Hendrik Peregrine Hoos, a grandson of Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne-Cust, 5th Baron Brownlow.