Christine Elizabeth "Chryssie" Stucley was born on 25 April 1940 to Sir Dennis Frederic Bankes Stucley, 5th Baronet, and Sheila Margaret Warwick Bampfylde (1912–1996), daughter of George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baron Poltimore.
[2] She and Cobbold were married on 7 January 1961 at St Nectan's Church near Hartland Abbey.
On 10 January 1961, he changed his family name by deed poll to "Lytton Cobbold" to recognize his mother's ancestry.
They had four children:[5] In the 1980s, the couple also informally adopted two Ugandan teenagers, friends of their eldest son from Eton College.
[2] The title of her best-selling 1986 memoir, Board Meetings in the Bath: How We Opened Knebworth House to the Public,[1] was inspired by the bathtub she had installed in the kitchen of their Little Venice home.