Roger Moore and her lack of confidence in his acting ability took their toll on the relationship, during which he allegedly suffered domestic abuse. In 1952, Moore met the Welsh singer Dorothy Squires, who was 12 years his senior, and Van Steyn and Moore divorced the following year. Squires and Moore were married in New York. They lived in Bexley, Kent, after their marriage. They moved to the United States in 1954 to develop their careers, but tension developed in their marriage due to their age difference and Moore's infatuation with starlet Dorothy Provine, and they moved back to the United Kingdom
Mona Moore another scholarship which allowed her to remain at St. Martin's until she was nineteen. Moore then studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts where she learnt the techniques of lithography. She left the Central School in 1939 and the same summer married Tony Bentin, who had also been an art student. At the start of the Second World War, Tony Bentin served with the Royal Artillery on an anti-aircraft battery in England whilst Moore obtained work as an artist with the Pilgrim Trust on the Recording Britain scheme. Moore had connections in the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea, and