Background
She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Adrian Sydney Morton Porter OStJ, a King"s Messenger and the author Rose Henniker Heaton.
She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Adrian Sydney Morton Porter OStJ, a King"s Messenger and the author Rose Henniker Heaton.
Her grandfather was the postal reformer Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet. She and Courtenay Stevens were divorced. During the Second World War she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office.