 She was also a founder of the League of Friends of the Italian Hospital in London from 1956 until it closed in 1989, a vice-president of the British-Italian Society for 50 years, a trustee of the Rosehill Arts Theatre, a trustee of the Chichester Festival Theatre Trust from 1962 to 1988, and a vice-president of the Council of Friends of Westminster Cathedral from 1993.She was a trustee of the Royal School of Needlework for 8 years, from 1964–76.Her husband, Giorgio, and her son, Piero, Count Roberti, from her first marriage predeceased her as did her second husband, Peter Thorneycroft.