 In her old age, Grahame was "bloated" and had her hair coloured, in her own words, "'red as flaming fires of hell'".Her housekeeper at the time of her death was Lily (née Budge), wife of the impoverished 13th Earl of Galloway.Margot Grahame died in London on New Year's Day of 1982, aged 70, from chronic bronchitis.