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==Personal life== She married [[Sydney Box]] in 1935 and gave birth to a daughter, Leonora the following year. They divorced in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|date=2013-10-05|title=Power women of the 1950s: Muriel and Betty Box|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/06/women-muriel-betty-box-rachel-cooke-film|access-date=2021-07-15|website=the Guardian}}</ref> Her sister-in-law [[Betty Box]] was Head of Production at the [[Gainsborough Pictures]] studio in Poole Street, [[Hoxton]], and her brother-in-law through Betty was [[Peter Rogers]], producer of the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' series of British comedy films.<ref>{{cite news |date=1947-03-29 |title=Producers run in Box family |work=Australian Women's Weekly |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51389240 |access-date=2023-02-19}}</ref> In 1970, she married [[Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner|Gerald Austin Gardiner]], who had been [[Lord Chancellor]], who died in 1990. She died in Mote End, Nan Clark's Lane, Mill Hill, [[Hendon]], [[London Borough of Barnet|Barnet]], London<ref name=":0" /> on 18 May 1991, aged 85.<ref name="BFI" /> === Daughter === Leonora went on to study at the [[Royal Academy of Arts|Royal Academy]] from 30 September 1957 until December 1960, exhibiting at both the 1959<ref>{{cite web|title=1959 Changing Times|url=https://chronicle250.com/1959#catalogue=leonora+box|access-date=2021-07-15|website=chronicle250.com}}</ref> and 1960<ref>{{cite web|title=1960 Dod Procter's Jamaican Girl|url=https://chronicle250.com/1960#catalogue=leonora+box|access-date=2021-07-15|website=chronicle250.com}}</ref> Royal Academy of Arts Exhibitions, while living at Pond Cottage, Nan-Clark's Lane, Mill Hill NW7.<ref>{{cite web|title=Leonora Box {{!}} Artist {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/leonora-box|access-date=2021-07-15|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}</ref>
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