During World War II she worked as a nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment before being appointed to a managerial position over 2,000 women employees at the British Manufacture and Research Company's munitions factory in Grantham.
In her later life she received attention for her brief relationship with Man Singh II and her long-term affair with J.
Paul Getty.
In 2014 she published her memoir titled The Girl with the Widow's Peak: The Memoirs.