Born in London in 1950,[3] she was the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon George Lloyd-Roberts and Catherine (née Ray).
[4] She worked as a special correspondent, travelling to, and reporting on, major news stories across the world, including important issues not covered widely elsewhere.
Lloyd-Roberts produced reports from states such as North Korea, Myanmar and Syria, where she focused on a range of important issues such as human rights violations, environmental degradation and political corruption.
She announced on the Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia and urgently needed a donor with matching tissue type so she could have a stem cell transplant.
[8] She ran a hotel in Mallorca, Spain, with her husband Nick Guthrie, a BBC producer.