In 1897 her mother married a second time, to Colonel John Bourchier Stracey-Clitherow[3] who in 1900 took up residence at Hotham Hall in East Riding, and later, after the death of his father in 1912, Boston Manor House.

"[7] Whatever the exact circumstances of her childhood, Troubridge spent much of her youth in Somerset's house where the refined library atmosphere influenced her future as a writer.

[8]  In 1930 their home, Ole Ways in Beaulieu, was completely destroyed by fire ‘Lady Troubridge who is a well-known authoress, lost hundreds of sheets of typescript.

The Washington Post wrote: 'Lady Troubridge, the facile romancist, whose latest novel, “The Millionaire”, created a sensation in England'  and continues, she 'depicts in classic style the trials of a young girl who leaves a dingy home in the suburbs of London to take her place in cosmopolitan society.

Throughout the story the secret sins of the upper classes are laid bare…and the innocent who are grabbed by the tentacles of the social octopus find it a herculean task to rescue themselves from its clutches.

Once in 1924 and a second time in 1933.NOTICE Our English law of succession by which a man may inherit the titles and estates of a noble House of which he is a remote and obscure member is the only explanation of much which, to the uninitiated, seems, and would otherwise be, incredible.

Though you may not find the Duke of St. Bevis in Burke or Debrett, perhaps you may have seen his prototype adorning some humble station, or may meet him later without ever realizing what he has owed to the accident of fortune.

'She has been on both sides of the Channel, to the places where “everybody” goes' and knew fellow authors, such as Belloe Lownders and Stephen McKenan, and met royalty, King Edward VII and Queen Victoria.

[17] She wrote seven society novels for Mills & Boon between 1909 and 1912:[18] The Woman who Forgot; The First Law; The Cheat; Body and Soul; Stormlight; The Girl with the Blue Eyes; and The Creature of Circumstance.