Her father was Italian-born Carlo Albanesi (1856–1926), a pianist and teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, while her mother was Effie Adelaide Rowlands (1859–1936), a writer who published over 250 romance novels and short stories.

[2] She enjoyed a short but successful theatre career, appearing in plays such as John Galsworthy's The First and the Last, opposite Owen Nares, and The School for Scandal and Mr. Todd's Experiment.

[1] Albanesi died at the age of 24 in Broadstairs, Kent, on 9 December 1923, after emergency abdominal surgery[5] caused by intestinal obstruction due to inflammatory adhesions.

[10] Dean commissioned Eric Gill to create a memorial plaque to Albanesi, which can be seen in the foyer of the St Martin's Theatre, West Street, London.

[11] Her friend Noël Coward dedicated the first published text of his play The Rat Trap to the "dear memory of Meggie Albanesi" in 1924.