Amelia was engaged to be married to the Earl of Farringdon, as part of an arranged marriage, her parents and brother Atlas insisting that she had a position to uphold. Amelia went to Oxford University to study art history. At some point, she was studying in the library, where she met Richard Croft. The pair hit it off, Croft shared some of his research, and was impressed by her wit. Both were immediately smitten with the other. Their conversation grew to the point where they had to be shushed by the librarian.