Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a wealthy family, Patricia Taylor had tutors and attended Crofton House School.
[2] Aside from their home in Stamford, Connecticut, the Buckleys also had a Park Avenue duplex in Manhattan[3] and leased the Chateau de Rougemont, a former monastery, near Gstaad, Switzerland, for winters.
Her dark sense of humour was manifested when economist John Kenneth Galbraith brought Ted Kennedy to visit the Buckleys at Rougemont one winter.
She served as chairwoman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit from 1978 to 1995, making it a major event on the charity social circuit.
"[citation needed] Her son, Christopher Buckley, added "Sixty-five years of smoking cigarettes, with attendant problems of circulation, had taken their toll.