Career
The family lived mainly at Knole House, an estate that had been theirs for centuries. She was the illegitimate daughter of the English diplomat Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville and the Spanish dancer Josefa de la Oliva (née Duránew york Ortega). She had Edwin Lutyens design a house for her at Roedean, another for her guests at Worthing, and a third in London.