[1] Her father, Count Prokop Lažanský z Bukové, was a Bohemian landowner and her mother, Countess Ingeborg von Königswald, was a German aviator.
After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, she returned again to find the castle in disrepair following forty years of management by the socialist government.
Lady Cawdor and her sister visited in 2011 and helped restore the chapel, which was established in 1833 by her great-grandmother, Countess Terezie Lažanská.
[8][9][10] In the spring of 2022, she prevented the estate from undertaking agricultural projects involving genetically modified crops.
In November 2002, she tried to have her stepson and his family evicted from the estate after they took up residence in the castle while she was on holiday in the United States.