Mare, aiming to support the Romanian cause to preserve the state borders established in 1918, and to keep Hungary from regaining the territory that it lost in the Treaty of Trianon. She campaigned against the Soviet control of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary as the chairman of the League for European Freedom in Britain from 1945. In 1958, she published a description of her life with her husband entitled Working Partnership. Other work She was also a vice-president of the Girls' Public Day School Trust from 1924 to 1960. She was also a keen composer, setting music to accompany the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1927 she opened the new wing at Clifton High School, Bristol with the head Ms Glenday and the architect Sir George Oatley She was closely involved in her husband's regiment The Scottish Horse and composed the melody "The Scottish Horse" to be played on bagpipes. Honours She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1918 Birthday Honours. As Dowager Duchess of Atholl she took over the appointment of Honorary Colonel of The Regiment of Scottish Horse from 1942, until she relinquished it in 1952. Death Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, died in Edinburgh, aged 85, in 1960. Publications (2 Volumes) Atholl, Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of (1933) Main Facts of the Indian Problem. 1st, 2nd & 3rd editions See also Duke of Atholl Julia Pirie References Sources Primary sources Records relating to Atholl can be found at: British Library Manuscript Section – correspondence with Lord Cecil, 1936–1944, Ref Add MS 51142 ( web site) Churchill Archives, Cambridge University – correspondence with Sir E L Spears, Ref SPRS (on-line catalogue). British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections – correspondence and papers relating to Indian self-government, 1928–1935. Ref:MSS Eur 903 (web site) National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Collections, correspondence and papers regarding the Scottish National War Memorial, 1919–1958, Ref: Acc 4714. (web site). King's College London Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Ref: LIDDELL: 1/27 (on-line catalogue). Institute of Education Archives, Girls' Day School Trust collection 'Katherine, Duchess of Atholl', 1960. Ref: GDS/2/3/1 (on-line catalogue). Source: Published sources External links Documents on the duchess's role in the Spanish Civil War from "Trabajadores: The Spanish Civil War through the eyes of organised labour", a digitised collection of more than 13,000 pages of documents from the archives of the British Trades Union Congress