[1] She explained of her origins that her mother was "French and English", her father "Hungarian and Italian".

[1] She spent four years working for George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre,[3] where she often played roles that highlighted her comic timing, her beauty, and her accented English,[4][5][6] though her singing voice was not strong.

[5][20][21][22] Australian composer May Summerbelle dedicated a 1904 waltz titled 'Beaux Yeux' (Beautiful Eyes) to grace.

[23] Palotta married Henry Samuel Kingston in 1888, in East Dereham, Norfolk.

[25][26] She died at a nursing home in Notting Hill, London in 1959, in her late eighties.