[1] In September 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany, initiating the Second World War, and her family realized that under the circumstances it would be prudent to leave the country immediately.

Piłsudska fled with her mother and elder sister, Wanda, to Lithuania and eventually arrived in the United Kingdom.

With the rank of second officer[2] (flying officer) she flew unarmed military aircraft in the skies of wartime Britain[1] and was, with Anna Leska and the Lithuanian-Pole Barbara Wojtulanis, one of several Polish women who served as wartime ferry pilots in Britain.

She worked as an architect for London City Council from 1948, before she and her husband set up their own furniture design business.

[5] In 1977, she and her husband took part in the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II on board the MGB S-3 during the Thames River Pageant.