Public Life
Lady Docker loved publicity and was often in public view.
In the summer of 1954, after a visit to a coal mine, Lady Docker invited several of the miners to a champagne party on the Dockers' yacht Shemara, at which she danced the hornpipe.
Lady Docker won a marbles championship in 1955 at Castleford's "Reight Neet Aht", a charity event for the Cancer Relief Fund, while wearing a sequin dress and diamonds. The match was rigged, the other players having been instructed to let her win. The next year, while in Melbourne, Australia to watch the 1956 Summer Olympics, she challenged the suburb of Collingwood to a marbles match.
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