Her brother, Marc, was killed in the First World War. After the war she formed a variety of friends. She married Gladwyn Jebb in 1929 and she became the wife of an ambitious diplomat in the Foreign Office. During the 1930s they spent three years in Rome and they had three children. By 1935 they were back in London but her husband was promoted with the Foreign Office which earned him a knighthood in 1949.
