[2][3][4] Verschoyle was born in Limerick and raised in Castle Troy on the banks of the River Shannon, where she was privately educated by governesses.
R.A. and was now a Land Agent, and his wife Hilda Caroline Hildyard Blair, of royal Plantagenet descent.
[5][6][7] Verschoyle married Horace de Heriz Smith (later Heriz-Smith)[8] of Bordighera, Italy, in Penang on 3 April 1922.
[12] While based in Sussex Verscholye married the writer Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode on 16 July 1927 with whom she had one son, who died young.
[13] Along with the novels and autobiography she produced and the work in theatre, Verschoyle also wrote articles for newspapers.