Background
She is a daughter of diplomat Rolf Otto Andvord, but her parents divorced when she was five years old. One time when visiting her father in Paris, she met business magnate Harald Løvenskiold, whom she married in 1951.
She is a daughter of diplomat Rolf Otto Andvord, but her parents divorced when she was five years old. One time when visiting her father in Paris, she met business magnate Harald Løvenskiold, whom she married in 1951.
From 1952 she worked with modernisation of the buildings at Bærums Verk together with the Directorate for Cultural Heritage. The industry at Bærums Verk was eventually closed down, and the locality was transformed to the shopping district Handelsstedet Bærums Verk which opened in 1985. In the same year she was recruited by Sonja of Norway as mistress of the robes (Norwegian: overhoffmesterinne) in the royal court.
She has been active in the local branches of the Conservative Party, Norges Forsvarsforening and the Norwegian Women"s Public Health Association.
Stuart was the United States ambassador to Norway from 1989 to 1994. The couple relocated to Lake Forest, Illinois.
In 2009 a statue of her was erected at Bærums Verk.