[8] Erulkar studied speech at the Royal Academy of Music and became a professional actress.

[1] While working in London, she met her future husband, Cypriot Glafcos Clerides, a law student and gunner for the Royal Air Force (RAF), shortly after the end of the war.

[1][2] Clerides had visited BBC's headquarters to see his sister, Chrysanthe, who also worked at the broadcaster.

[2] After waiting one year, the couple married in a civil ceremony held in London in 1947.

[2] Clerides converted to Greek Orthodox Christianity and chose "Irene" as her baptismal name.

[2] The couple had one daughter, Katherine (nicknamed Katy), born in 1949, who would serve in the House of Representatives for the Democratic Rally party.

[1] Clerides died at her family home in Meneou, just outside Larnaca, on 6 June 2007, at the age of 85.