She lost contact with her eldest six children, but her seventh child,Richard Keppel Craven, who was four, lived with her.

While the Margravine was snubbed by ladies mindful of their reputations, as well as by her new husband's cousin, King George III, and by Queen Marie Antoinette when she visited France, the couple lived a full and opulent life in Hammersmith, London, and at Benham Park, Berkshire.

[3]: 135, 183  In fact, Alexander, being the last of his cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and childless, had exchanged his hereditary birthright to the appanages of Ansbach and Bayreuth for an annuity of 300,000 guilders from his pater familias, King Frederick William II of Prussia, a month after his second marriage.

[6] Her children were:[7] Early in her literary career she wrote a number of light farces, pantomimes, and fables, some of which were performed in London.

She knew Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, and became a close friend of Horace Walpole, who published her early works.