Sarah Domville-Taylor was born in 1870 in Ludlow, Shropshire the youngest of five daughters of Walter Domville-Taylor Justice of the Peace and his wife Mary Hamilton, daughter of Colonel Christopher Hamilton Member of Parliament. She grew up in an impoverished but Upper class home with a house in Shropshire and a house in London, 48 Belgrave Square. She grew up with a German governess Baroness von Altenburg and was taught a very pro German and Anti-semetic ideology.
They had one child, Arthur Trevor Winter, educated at Fettes College and who was a banker with Barclays. Many historians believe that this close family relationship with King George VI was hugely responsible for her apparent diplomatic and social immunity during these years. Following her husband"s death of typhoid, Mrs Winter devoted her life to charity but also to the social life she loved and cherished.
Her annual Hamilton House Christmas Ball was always well attended, including an appearance from Edward VII in 1902.
She was not Pro-German at this time but began to be more so after the end of the First World War, on hearing accounts from her relation Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton. She joined the Anglo-German Fellowship in 1935 and the British Union of Fascists in the same year.
Her knowledge and support for the Nazi party grew in this time and continued to her legendary display of the Nazi flag at all her residences on the eve after the Anschluss. She instead retreated to Shropshire where she continued her support for Nazi Germany and was frequently accused of espionage.
She died in 1944 and is buried at Pershore, Worcestershire.
He refused to ever talk of his mother"s political views, his grandson is Professor Michael Winter.
