She had numerous love affairs within the elite Melton Mowbray hunting clique and had a long relationship with the renowned pianist Arthur Rubinstein, whom she said she slept with on his wedding day.

[5] During the Great War she went to a club in the East End of London to sing to the working men and women as part of a voluntary job.

She worried that she and her money might be seen primarily as useful accompaniments to a political career and yearned to marry a man who would refuse to leave his wife.

Her friend, the Asian explorer Sir Francis Younghusband, considered by parliament one of the heroes of the age, helped her form the World Congress of Faiths.

In a world of the "unhappy distractions of materialism", she wrote in 1936, "people needed a spiritual design for living in a greater universalism."

[9] She sat on the Cross bench when she made a maiden speech on 4 February 1959, in which she discussed funding youth services.

[citation needed] Speaking on the Street Offences bill 1959 she criticised the law that blamed women for seeking income from prostitution, and instead sought to punish the men.

She accused the government of permitting the burgeoning club scene in London, particularly to thrive, off criminal gangs, pimps and ponces.

[11] In celebrating youth services, the baroness affirmed the Albemarle Report; finding a need for 'professionalised' recruitment was not the answer to a million youngsters by 1962, by moral and ethical principles.