During World War II, she worked as a translator at the German Embassy in Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia.

While working as a translator for the British troops in Austria she met her future husband, the English officer Raoul Teesdale Lloyd-Dolbey.

As a token of appreciation for her dedicated service to the Sultan's family, she received a number of Bruneian decorations and the Malay honorific title of a Datin.

She spent the summers with her husband mostly in Drešinja Vas, at her parents’ estate where the former building for drying of hops was adapted into housing.

She is buried along with her husband Raoul, who died a few years before in Ljubljana, in the Kopše family grave at the cemetery in Žalec, Slovenia.