[1] Smith is the curator and lessee of Tutbury Castle, a position granted by the Duchy of Lancaster, for which she works as Public Relations Officer.
completing her PhD in "obstetrics and gynaecology in early modern Britain", working in conjunction with University of Birmingham and the British Museum.
[2] Lesley Smith was entirely convent educated before university, and although described as, "causing quite a stir" by one of the teaching nuns, she claims to have loved school.
[citation needed] When aged 35, she modelled for a realist statue of the Immaculate Conception created by sculptor Mark Delph[10] in 1992.
[11] Smith is married to Viking specialist authority Dr. Gareth Williams,[12] and has one son, Henry, by her late husband, who was a notary public.