Rosalind Cubitt: Camilla’s social activist, aristocratic mother who died of osteoporosis nearly three decades ago, before her daughter became queen

And as Camilla officially begins to enjoy her reign of England, today we remind you of the little-known story of her mother Rosalind Cubitta woman from the English aristocracy who died on July 14, 1994 when she was 72 years old.

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Although she did not belong to the royal family and her name is little known to many Britons, she came from a wealthy family and was the founder of a construction company.

The media paid attention to her when Camilla Rosemary Shandwith the queen’s full name, he remembered her during the celebration of Mother’s Day in 2022.

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Rosalind Cubitt was born in Grovesnor Street, London on August 12, 1921. She was the daughter of Sonia Keppel and Roland Calvert Cubitt and the eldest of three siblings, Vanity Fair reports.

It is known that her father was the 3rd Baron of Ashcombe, so Rosalind was very well connected from an early age, reports the magazine.

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In 1939, the press declared her “debutante of the year” because the young woman became famous in high society at the so-called “debutante ball”, held in Holland House in KensingtonLondon, before it was destroyed in World War II.

In January 1946 she married her boyfriend Bruce Middleton Hope Shand who was a major in the British Army and fathered her three children, Camille (1947), Sonia Annabel (1949) and Mark Roland (1951), who died in 2014. .at 62 years old.

The publication reports that she worked for years at an adoption agency, and was also a volunteer at the Chailey Heritage Foundation, where she helped children with mobility difficulties.

“Sometimes you come across someone who is truly exceptional, and Rosalind was that person,” Priscilla Spencer once told Mail Online. She was Camilla’s childhood friend and met her mother through her.

Rosalind was unable to see the eldest of her daughters become royalty, as she died of osteoporosis ten years before Camilla’s marriage to Carlos was finalized.

Sonia Rosemary Cubitt, grandmother of the Queen of England, who was crucial in the Queen’s life, died of the same disease, taking care of her health through diet.

Camilla’s father, Bruce, was lucky enough to witness the couple’s wedding and died in 2006 of cancer. (AND)