After marrying, as her third husband, Professor John Dalgleish Donaldson, at Oxford on 5 September 2001, she became stepmother of his four children, including Mary, Queen of Denmark.
She then lived in France where she met her first husband, Professor Walter Frank Bertsch (died 1971), whom she married in 1961.
[3] She has been elected to the prestigious Detection Club and as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (FCIL).
Amateur detective Penny is a beautiful 6-ft black photographer, daughter of a UN Ambassador.
Moody has written a number of well-received short stories which have appeared in many anthologies.