As a child, Berenice never spoke much at all, because of her mother's wrath during the pregnancy. But she was deemed beautiful, wearing a granny dress. Her dad was also a volatile guy, which also explained why she got involved in many scandals since her teens.
Although controversial, she also had friends and admirers, especially the Gellman family until she divorced Peter when her offspring were young. She lived alone for the rest of her life, never seeing two of her grandchildren, the fraternal twins Stewart and Gwendolyn Clayton (children of Adeline and Julius Clayton) being born in London, until dying of tuberculosis in 1897.