 Pablo Merry del Val’s uncle was Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, Papal Secretary of State until 1914, and Secretary of the Holy Office (formerly the Holy Office of the Inquisition) until his unexpected death from complications following appendicitis in 1930.On July 4, 1936 she married Ángel Fernández de Liencres, Marqués de Nájera.On February 24, 1948 she married John McKee-Norton (died in Northampton, UK 27.10.2009) a Canadian expatriate living in England whom she met in the bar of the Ritz Hotel in Paris.