Her career in journalism started working in television as assistant to reporter Gabe Pressman of NBC News.
She held several editorial positions at Tatler and the American- and English Vogue before becoming a freelance journalist for The Times Literary Supplement, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and Evening Standard.
After the divorce she dated Stan Gebler Davies, a fellow journalist.
According to Mary Killen who wrote her biography in The Independent: "She always induced happiness in her visitors.
Her eclectic style combined utter elegance with an eye for the witty.