 Dressed in borrowed finery, Lachmann "managed to get to ... Covent Garden, where she made a profitable display of her other gifts".Her first British conquest was Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, and she became his mistress for a time.Her affair with Lord Stanley was followed by other remunerative alliances with "other more or less well-known men of the day", including the duc de Guiche (later 10th duc de Gramont).