[1] She founded Les Amis de la France in Simla, a society for the "encouragement of the study of French literature, language, music and culture".
She married Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler (1869–1938) in India on 14 July 1894, abandoning him "temporarily" before returning on their wedding day.
In January 1914, she and Spencer sailed from Athens to India on Lord Brassey's yacht, The Sunbeam, which had cruised around the world to great acclaim 40 years previously.
Spencer confided in his Under Secretary, Mr Lupton, that although he and Lady Butler had been married for many years, they had "not lived together for more than eight days."
[15] Butler was Chair of the All-India Executive Committee in the early 1930s and was recipient of the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding's highest adult honour, in 1932, for "good service to the movement".
[17] Lady Butler founded Les Amis de la France, a society for the "encouragement of the study of French literature, language, music and culture" in Simla, in 1912.