[1] Raised as an Anglican, she had a strict upbringing and taught Sunday School at St Michael's Church in Bayswater.

She met her future husband, Robert Muldoon, at a seminar on voluntary unionism in 1947 and they began going out together the following March.

The couple were married at Holy Trinity Church, Devonport on 17 March 1951, and had three children between December of that year and 1956.

[1] During her husband's term as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1984, Muldoon took an active role in civic affairs, regularly speaking at functions, opening buildings and visiting the sick and infirm.

[5] In the 1993 New Year Honours, a few months after her husband's death, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community.