She was educated at Francis Holland School and Malvern St James until the Second World War, when she, her brother, and their mother moved to America.
[1] Shirley Morgan began her career in the Foreign Office[1] as personal secretary to Gladwyn Jebb until her marriage to Lord Anglesey in 1949.
As Marchioness of Anglesey, she served as President of the National Federation of Women's Institutes 1966–1969,[4] a board member of the British Council 1985–1995, chairman of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission 1987–1991, and vice-chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission 1989–1996.
Queen Mary was a guest at their wedding as King George V was a godfather of the groom.
At the time of her husband's death in 2013, it was believed they were the only living married couple apart from Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to have attended the Coronation.