Early Life
She was born in the Sydney suburb of Waverley, a daughter of Alan Robert Cullen-Ward and his wife, the former Phyllis Dorothea Murray-Prior. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, an Australian politician who served as Postmaster-General in the ministries of Robert Herbert, Sir Robert Mackenzie, and Arthur Hunter Palmer in Queensland.
Cullen-Ward grew up on her father's sheep station. She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College at Orange, then Sydney Technical College, before teaching art at a private studio.
She was married to Rick Williams from 1965 to 1970.
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