The eldest of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont), she was born in St Pancras, London.
She was the daughter of cartoonist and writer George du Maurier and his wife Emma Wightwick, the elder sister to actor Gerald du Maurier, the aunt of novelists Angela and Daphne du Maurier and great-granddaughter of Royal mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany Mary Anne Clarke.
The novelist Angela du Maurier, older sister of Dame Daphne du Maurier, is said to have spent some time residing at Torosay after her close companion Olive Guthrie (Great Grandmother of the present owner) was left a widow by the death of her husband Walter.
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