[1] She lived for a time in Portsmouth, England, where her daughters Emma and Rebecca were born, before returning to the Falklands with her family after the 1982 war.
[5] She resigned from that post in 1987,[6] and in 1989 she returned to the council as a representative of the Camp constituency, a position she held until her retirement in 2005.
[1][9] She was a fierce opponent of the 1999 Anglo-Argentine joint agreement[8] and offered testimony to the United Nations in favor of the British side of the dispute.
[10] Her husband, Roger Edwards, whom she married in 1970,[1] is a current member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly.
[3][8] Edwards was awarded the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 Birthday Honours for "services to the community.