 Her father, Baron Carl Alexander Fock, was a Swedish Army colonel, from a family which had emigrated to Sweden from Westphalia.Her mother, whose maiden name was Huldine Beamish, was born in 1860 into an Irish family famous for brewing Beamish and Crawford stout in Cork.Her great-great grandfather, William Beamish, was one of the founders of Beamish and Crawford, and her grandfather had served in Britain's Coldstream Guards.