After being educated at home and then at Finishing School, she made her appearance at court as a debutante, in 1890, the year she also married her only husband Robert Winter (1872–1898), whose family were major landowners in Newport, Shropshire. They had one child, Arthur Trevor Winter, educated at Fettes College and who was a banker with Barclays. He refused to ever talk of his mother's political views, his grandson is Professor Michael Winter. Her husband's cousin was Ormonde Winter, another noted British Fascist, who was married to a first cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, emphasizing her position in British Society. Many historians believe that this close family relationship with King George VI was hugely responsible for her apparent diplomatic and social immunity during these years.