[1][2] She was one of nine children, seven sisters and two brothers: Mary (1898), Sylvia (1899), Kathleen (1901), Douglas (1903), Rosalind (1904), Helen (1906), Mavin (1907), Ruth (1909) and Lorna (1911).

Kathleen was employed by Harrods, helping with the horses that pulled the delivery carriages, and also worked as an artist's model.

At night they frequented West End clubs such as The Gargoyle, The Harlequin, and The Cave of the Golden Calf.

[3] In 1923, Epstein's jealous wife Margaret invited Kathleen to her house and shot her in the shoulder with a pearl-handled pistol.

[5] Epstein paid Kathleen's hospital bills and persuaded her not to press charges against Margaret, lest it erupt into a public scandal.

They married in June 1955, in a private ceremony at Fulham Register Office, London, eight years after Margaret's death.