12 Facts About Elizabeth Byrd

Joseph Byrd was a mining prospector and promoter who eventually remarried and settled in Tucson, Arizona.

Elizabeth Byrd claimed to be a descendant, through her father, of John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun.

For nine years, between 1935 and 1944, Elizabeth Byrd was a radio news writer for CBS, then Columbia Broadcasting System.

In 1944, Elizabeth Byrd left radio and began a new career path, working until 1950 as an associate editor for New York literary agencies.

Elizabeth Byrd established her own literary agency, Betty Byrd Associates, in 1951.

Elizabeth Byrd was the editor for three years of Your Romance, a salacious confession magazine.

Elizabeth Byrd began collecting biographies on the life of Stuart and wrote a play about her when she was 12.

Elizabeth Byrd travelled to Scotland in 1953 and researched Stuart's life further, leading to the writing of Immortal Queen, which was published in 1956 when she was 43 years old.

Elizabeth Byrd published a sequel to this, It Had to Be You, in 1982.

Elizabeth Byrd returned to the United States in 1976, to Tucson where her family had previously settled.

Elizabeth Byrd felt homesick for Edinburgh and returned to Scotland after five years.

Elizabeth Byrd died in Tucson on May 11,1989, at the age of 76.