During the First War of Scottish Independence, she was captured by the English and imprisoned in a cage at Roxburgh Castle for circa four years.
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By order of King Edward I of England, she was then held prisoner in an iron or wooden cage exposed to the public view in Roxburgh Castle.
Following a short stint in London the couple left England on 3 September 1799 so that Bruce could take up his Ambassadorial position; sailing from Portsmouth on the HMS Phaeton.
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The pair were distantly related via the Montagus and were considered a good match by both families.
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Bruce divorced Nesbit in 1807/08 and she went on to marry Robert Ferguson of Raith (1777–1846).
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In 1872, Harcourt married Rachel Mary Bruce, daughter of the Home Secretary, Henry Bruce.
He assumed the surname of Christopher in lieu of his patronymic in 1835 when his wife Lady Mary Bruce (see below) inherited the Christopher estates at Bloxholm and Wellvale in Lincolnshire.