She was the daughter of Margherita (born van Raalte) and Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden.
Bronwen Mary (later Lindsay) (1912-2003) and John Osmael Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden (1912-1999).
[2] In 1937 she found out that her friend had volunteered to serve as a nurse to support the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
While she was working as a nurse she wrote a diary noting the wounds, the screaming and the casual approach to sterilisation.
[2] She married, secondly, Ian Hanson, a young opera singer from Manchester, in 1972[2][1] Ellis died in 1983 in Los Angeles.