Career
She was the principal of the Lucie Clayton School of grooming and modelling for thirty years, during which time she supervised a curriculum that included etiquette and deportment. Graduates of the school include actress Joanna Lumley. Prior to that she trained as fashion designer, milliner and make-up specialist, and herself was a model.
She is a regular expert contributor for television, radio, newspapers and often appears on live news programmes and is interviewed on live radio "link-ups".
In recent years Broke-Smith has appeared in a series of television programmes on the subject of manners. She appeared on Faking lieutenant, teaching a girl from the north of England to present herself as a society "lady".
In Snobs. And as an etiquette expert on Britain"s Next Top Model.