Background
She was born Judith de Marffy-Mantuano on the family estate in Kaposvar, Hungary, on 12 July 1903.
She was born Judith de Marffy-Mantuano on the family estate in Kaposvar, Hungary, on 12 July 1903.
London School of Economics.
The couple were ill-fitted, they travelled around Europe together and separately for the rest of the decade. After World World War II was declared, Lady Listowel urged both Count Ciano, Mussolini"s son-in-law, and her kinsman, the Hungarian prime minister Paul Teleki, not to side with Hitler. Beginning her career as an author in the 1920s, Lady Listowel produced a volume of short stories about Hungarian society, as well as other works including: This I Have Seen (1943), which was an account of her early life, "Crusader In The Secret War" (1952), an account of the activities of January Kowalewski during World World War II, Manual of Modern Manners (1959) The Modern Hostess (1961), which attracted widespread attention, The Making of Tanganyika (1965), Dusk on the Danube (1969)and the thoroughly researched "A Hapsburg Tragedy—Crown Prince Rudolf" (1978).
She died 3 days after her 100th birthday in July 2003, possibly in England.