Later Life
She married for a third time, to Lt. Col. George Hawes, later the same year. The marriage was unhappy due to her husbands homosexuality and they also divorced in 1925. A semi-autobiographical novel, That Fool of a Woman, was published in 1924.
She lived mostly in France through the 1920s and 1930s, and also travelled. She living near Angers in 1940, and was captured after the German occupation of France. She escaped via Spain and Portugal to the United States, and returned to Paris in 1945.
She died in Orriule, near Sauveterre-de-Béarn, in south-west France. She was cremated at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, and her ashes were interred at the Sutherland private cemetery at Dunrobin Castle. She was survived by her eldest son, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland.
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