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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.
Lord Rossmore, architectural photographer who wooed Marianne Faithfull away from Mick Jagger – obituary
Rossmore’s photos evoked Ireland’s heritage, while he was proud of his part in the founding of the Coolmine addiction recovery centre
Lord Rossmore with Marianne Faithfull at Dublin airport in 1970
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Lord Rossmore, who has died aged 90, was a lanky and diffident Irish peer who established a reputation as an architectural photographer and briefly made headlines when he became engaged to the ultimate rock chick, Marianne Faithfull.
The link was Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, who had become involved in efforts to conserve Ireland’s architectural heritage with Mariga Guinness, and her husband Desmond, co-founders of the Irish Georgian Society. After coming down from Cambridge Paddy Rossmore took his camera and joined Desmond FitzGerald and Mariga Guinness on their travels around Ireland.
On the day the hunger striker Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison at the height of the Troubles in 1981, Paddy Rossmore’s house in Co Monaghan was burnt down by the IRA.With his baronial title dating