She served as the Third Church Estates Commissioner, one of the most senior lay people in the Church of England, from 1999 to 2005.
She was also President of the Church Mission Society (CMS) between 1998 and 2007: the CMS is an evangelical Anglican and ecumenical Protestant missionary organisation.On 21 March 1964, she married Crispin Joynson-Hicks.
He became the 4th Viscount Brentford in 1983, and as his wife, she uses the style of Viscountess Brentford.
Together they have four children: one son and three daughters.