[1][2] Lady Marguerite worked for the Mechanised Transport Corps in World War II and in later life held a variety of jobs as well as writing about her childhood in Brazil.

The realist painting, entitled By the Hills, achieved the top price at the Royal Academy summer exhibition that year.

[9] With her third husband, Nigel Tangye, Lady Marguerite ran the Glendorgal Hotel, his seaside home near Newquay, from 1951.

[9] Following her divorce from Nigel Tangye in 1964, Lady Marguerite returned to London and worked various administrative jobs including at the Post Office and as a query clerk at Harrods.

On the outbreak of World War II, fearing an invasion of the east coast, Lady Marguerite and her friend Rosemary Potter took a carthorse and polo pony on a nine-day journey (carrying fodder) from Worlingham to a safer location in Gloucestershire.