BIOGRAPHY

Juliet Glyn was born at the Durrington Country Estate, Harlow, Essex on 17th December 1898, the youngest daughter of Clayton Glyn and Elinor Glyn née Sutherland. She was educated between the ages of 10 - 14 at The Links, Eastbourne and on her family's move to France in 1913 she finished her formal education In Paris. 

When she returned to London in 1914 she refused to resume her schooling and, pretending to be 18, joined the war effort with her older sister, Margot as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD).  In 1915, her father died.  Between 1914 - 1916 Juliet was an operating nurse working at the London War Hospital (where she met her future husband Rhys Williams who was undergoing treatment).  Between 1916 - 1918 she worked in the War Office Intelligence Department maintaining the registry of all intelligence documents. In 1919 she became one of 3 secretaries to the War Cabinet Demobilisation Committee.

1920 she became private secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary for Transport, Rhys Williams.

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