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In the book Royal Feud, author Michael Thornton claims the Dowager Lady Hardinge of Penshurst, whose husband was at that time assistant private secretary to George V later private secretary to both Edward VIII and George VI, when writing of Edward and Rosemary “…he wished to marry…but there was opposition to the match…One can wonder forever how the history of our monarchy in the 20th century and after would have turned out, if the Prince of Wales had had his way in those early days.”
Lady Rosemary Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower was the youngest of four children born to Lord Cromartie, the eldest son and heir of the third Duke of Sutherland and his wife Millicent St Clair-Erskine. The couple were married in 1884 when Millicent was just 17 and Rosemary was born on August 9 1893. It was during the summer of 1917 when Edward, the Prince of Wales then aged 23 met and fell in love with Rosemary during the time she was working as a Red Cross nurse in France.
In Royal Feud, Thornton also quotes from Lady Victor Paget, one of Rosemary’s closest friends as saying of Rosemary: “One day she came to see me and told me that the Prince had asked her to marry him.” When his father King George V, announced he was against the match Lady Paget expressed that “The Prince was bitter and furious. I don’t think he ever forgave his father. I also felt that from that time on he had made up his mind that he would never make what might be called a suitable marriage to please his family.”
It may be a coincidence but Edward never courted anyone single or suitable after Rosemary, all his later relationships were with married women. Lady Rosemary went on to marry William Ward Viscount Ednam 3rd Earl of Dudley in 1919 and had three sons at Himley Hall on the outskirts of Dudley.
It was while returning from visiting her husband who was in Le Touquet France for the benefit of his health a Junkers W33 aeroplane that she and five others were in crashed at Meopham in Kent on the afternoon of July 21 1930.
The other fatalities were Mrs Henrik Loeffler the Marquess of Dufferin Sir Edward Ward along with pilot Lieutenant-Colonel George ‘Budgie’ Henderson and reserve pilot Dr Charles Shearing. Mrs Henrik Loeffler like Lady Rosemary was a noted beauty who had been giving a house party at her Le Touquet villa and both the Marquess and Sir Edward had been her guests.
In a strange twist of fate the pilot Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson an experienced aviator had written a book ‘A Complete Course of Practical Flying’ which was published on the morning of the tragedy. An eye-witness account was given by Harold Ward of Leylands Orchard Meopham “When I first saw the aeroplane it appeared to turn over nosedive and things that looked like small aeroplanes came from it. I thought at first it was a big aeroplane with small ones around it. The objects seemed about the size of a penny when I first saw them. I did not realise what they were until they fell lower and then I saw they were human bodies. The wing of the aeroplane then parted and floated in the air like a piece of paper.”
The bodies were taken to a makeshift mortuary in a stable at the King’s Head at Meopham Green. It was here that an inquest was begun two days after the crash. The Duke of Sutherland attended and formally identified his sister. The inquest verdict was death from severe injuries through falling from an aeroplane which broke up in flight. Despite an intensive examination into what caused the crash itself no single factor could be found to blame and the reason still remains unknown.
Memorial services for Rosemary were held a few days later at St Margaret’s Westminster the Dornoch Cathedral and the Golspie parish church. The Duke of Sutherland and Viscount Ednam received messages of sympathy from the King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family. The following year Prince Edward opened the Rosemary Ednam Memorial Extension at Hartshill and in Dudley close to her marital home the maternity hospital was re-christened in her honour.
Two of Rosemary’s relatives went on to have successful acting careers. Rachel Ward the daughter of the honourable Peter Ward born in 1957 is best known for her portrayal of Meggie Cleary in TV series The Thorn Birds. Rachel’s sister Tracy Louise Ward born in 1958 is perhaps best remembered as Tessa Robinson in the 1980s TV detective series C.A.T.S. Eyes.
During the early 21st century a reminder of ‘the queen that might have been’ lives on in the creation of Rosemary Ednam Close in Hartshill.
MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA EXTRACTS: II
British Royal Family well seasoned commentators are believed to have recently remarked that the genesis of the Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland identity theft scandal lies in the forging of the birth certificate which effectively brought about a wide cadre of public figures who took advantage following the death of his mother and father respectively HRH The Princess Marina Duchess of Kent and George 5th Duke of Sutherland – later HRH Prince Edward Duke of Windsor and Sir Winston S. Churchill both godfathers to Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland during the formative years.
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The Carroll Foundation Charitable Trust and parallel Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland Trust multi-billion dollar corporate identity theft case has revealed that the explosive Scotland Yard criminal “standard of proof” prosecution files contain a forensic evidential paper trail surrounding the fraudulent incorporation of HRH Charles Prince of Wales and Gerald Carroll Trusts companies which were specifically incorporated to impulse this massive City of London bank fraud heist spanning the globe.
Companies House “leaked” source have disclosed that the Prince’s Trust and Gerald Carroll Trusts fraudulent “dummy companies” which are named in the dossiers include the PYBT Development Fund (Northern) Ltd and the Prince’s Youth Business Trust (Southern) Ltd. Sources have said that the Prince Charles Gerald Carroll Trusts organisations focused on the major funding of young entrepreneurs within the much needed manufacturing industrial sector of the British economy.
Further sources have said that the priceless Carroll Foundation Trust trophies have also been named in the files concerning the theft of the entire collection which had a three million dollar valuation. It is understood that the trophies were a “central feature” in the wide ranging management of the Gerald Carroll Trusts good causes which involved the HM Queen Elizabeth II HRH Prince Edward Duke of Kent and HRH Charles Prince of Wales patronages.
Scotland Yard leaked sources have said that files are “centred around” the Red Cross the Royal Society of Portrait Painters the Royal Air Forces Association the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund the Prince’s Trust the world renowned Carroll Chair of Irish History attached to Hertford College Oxford University and the Carroll House Annapolis Maryland Trust to name but a few.
In a stunning twist it has emerged that Sir Tom Shebbeare former comptroller of the Prince’s Trust and HRH Charles Prince of Wales charities has been named as an “expert witness” concerning these shocking revelations in the Gerald Carroll Trusts debacle.
The Carroll Foundation Trust files are held within a complete lockdown at the FBI Washington DC field office and the Metropolitan Police Service Scotland Yard London under the supervision of the commissioner who has an intimate knowledge of this major case of international importance.
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