[1] She was the younger daughter of Władysław Paschalski (died 1927), owner of a machine factory connected to the tobacco industry, and his wife, Irena née Górska (1890-1990).
Against the background of communist repressions of former members of the Home Army, she elected to enter into a fictitious marriage with a family friend, Krystyn Kleniewski, who had British citizenship and emigrate to the United Kingdom after 1946.
[3] After the collapse of the marriage - Carroll became the step-father of the actress, Rula Lenska and her sisters - [5] she met a Polish post-graduate student in Oxford.
[7] In response, the Polish government under the leadership of Wojciech Jaruzelski accused her husband of spying for United States intelligence services and sentenced him to death in absentia.
[1][3] Among the works she translated into English from their Polish original, were the plays of Zbigniew Herbert and her husband's Conrad studies.