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He was an impecunious old Etonian peer who tried and failed to rescue her from drugs.
They fell so madly in love that within three days of meeting at a country house party, Marianne Faithfull had all but abandoned Jagger, then the world’s most famous rock star, and announced that she intended to marry the ‘sensitive’ and ‘gentle’ Lord Rossmore, a bachelor who lived with his widowed mother.
Of all the mixed up couplings between the old upper classes and the new aristocracy of rock and pop music that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s, this extraordinary union between the hauntingly beautiful actress and singer then at the peak of her glamour and fame and the bookish, spiritual Anglo-Irish peer, who died last week aged 90, was one of the most mystifying of all.
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Lord Rossmore, the Irish society photographer, has died aged 90.
He could not have been a more different suitor for 1960s It girl Marianne Faithfull than her former partner, the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, but Patrick Paddy Rossmore, the 7th Baron Rossmore, somehow captured her heart during a brief romance at Glin Castle in 1970. Within days, the couple, whose age gap was 16 years, were engaged, though it never produced a marriage.
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As Olda Fitzgerald, Glin s châteleine in the Sixties, told
Tatler: Mick and Marianne came to stay - it was all very easy, very relaxed and jolly. And then she gave us a terrible fright and said she d fallen in love with Paddy Rossmore.