In April 1865, she began, in partnership with Henry Byron, the management of the Prince of Wales's Theatre. For two seasons before her marriage she managed the theatre alone. She secured as a leading actor Squire Bancroft, whom she had met shortly before in Liverpool and married in December 1867. Her son Charles Edward Wilton (born 1863) changed his name to Bancroft upon the marriage of his mother to Squire Bancroft. Their sons together were George Louise Pleydell Bancroft (born 1869) and Arthur Hamilton Bancroft (born and died 1870). The Prince of Wales's soon became noted for its series of successful comedies by T. W. Robertson, namely: "Society" (1865), "Ours" (1866), "Caste" (1867), "Play" (1868), "School" (1869) and "M. P." (1870).