[1] Her mother, Louisa May "Wendy" Todd (née Robins; 1914–1991), "came from a wealthy family linked to the Bibby Line shipping company".
She spent time in Paris, France, where she learned French, and then in Florence, Italy, where she studied and worked at the Hotel Savoy.
[1] Among her suitors was Anthony Armstrong Jones, later husband of Princess Margaret, but she fell in love with Angus Malcolm Wolfe Murray (born 1937), a journalist at The Yorkshire Post.
[2] However, upon Stephanie's return, she still wished to marry Wolfe Murray and was only allowed to do so when he made it known that he had titled relatives:[2] his maternal grandfather was Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow.
[1] In 1973, Wolfe Murray co-founded the publishing company Canongate Books and her husband, and after he left the following year she ran it almost alone.