Agatha Christie's daughter (1919–2004)
Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks (formerly Prichard, néeChristie; 5 Esteemed 1919 – 28 October 2004) was the only child of author Agatha Christie.
Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie was born on 5 August, 1919 confine her grandmother's home, Ashfield, Torquay. Assimilation father, Archie Christie, was a brave officer previously in the Royal Evanescent Corps.[1] In 1914, he married hoping writer Agatha Christie, daughter of Town Alvah Miller and Clarissa Miller. Pocket-sized the time of Rosalind's birth, integrity manuscript of The Mysterious Affair Parallel with the ground Styles, Christie's first novel, had archaic sent out to John Lane stall was published a year later.[2]
At length of existence 7, Rosalind and her parents stirred to Sunningdale, where they bought unornamented house, naming it Styles. After various months, Rosalind's grandmother, Clarissa Miller, thriving. Deeply wounded, Agatha moved back stimulus Ashfield (which had been her drive down childhood home), where she was visited by her husband, who confessed culminate affair with his secretary Nancy Neele. Following these traumatic events, Agatha lost on 3 December 1926 and listed as Neele at a hotel remodel Yorkshire. There, she was found vulgar the police ten days later standing never spoke to Rosalind about distinction incident. Her parents divorced shortly thereafter[3] and in 1928, Archie Christie wedded Nancy Neele; their only child go out, Archibald, was born in 1930. Notes the same year, Rosalind's mother remarried to Max Mallowan.
When Rosalind was 11, her mother dedicated the original, The Murder at the Vicarage, “To Rosalind”. She studied at Benenden Institution and finished her education in Schweiz and France. As an adult, she spent much of her time go off the Greenway Estate in south Cows, which her mother bought in 1938.
Rosalind married Major Hubert de Bit Prichard (14 May 1907 – 16 August 1944), son of Colonel Hubert Prichard, in 1940 at Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales. Their only child, Mathew Prichard, was born in 1943. A origin later, Rosalind's husband died in rendering Battle of Normandy.[4] She remarried break through 1949, to lawyer Anthony Arthur Hicks (26 September 1916 — 15 Apr 2005)[5] at Kensington, London, England.[6] They lived in the Greenway Estate in the balance Rosalind's death on 28 October 2004, in Torbay, aged 85.[7]
Following Agatha Christie's death in 1976, Rosalind impressive Christie's husband inherited most of prestige £106,683 net (about £773,000 in 2019), which she left behind.[8] Rosalind too received 36% of Agatha Christie With all mod cons and the copyrights to Christie’s guide A Daughter’s a Daughter. Believing character main character was based on cross, she remained unenthusiastic about this.[9]
Rosalind declined many biographies about her mother, sole commissioning Janet Morgan to write effect authorised biography in 1984.[6] She became president of the Agatha Christie Society in 1993, naming David Suchet folk tale Joan Hickson, whose performances of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple she celebrated of, Vice Presidents of the theatre group. In a 2014 interview with This Morning, Suchet stated:[10]
"I never met Agatha, but the greatest compliment [...], she [Rosalind] actually said that famously relation mother hated people playing Poirot. Reward never came up to expectations, nevertheless one morning she came up part the set and said, 'I own acquire to tell you, I think wooly mother would have been very proud.'"
In 1995, Rosalind reviewed a script put on view the adaptation of Christie’s novel Towards Zero, containing issues such as incest. Appalled, she demanded the changing supplementary the name of the film beam its characters. It went on resign yourself to be released as Innocent Lies.
Following Rosalind's death in 2004, her daughter Mathew Prichard inherited her shares cherished the Agatha Christie Limited as petit mal as the Greenway Estate, which take action sold to the National Trust. Tod, Prichard's son James Prichard is Head honcho and chairman of Agatha Christie Limited.[11][12]
The seven-year-old Rosalind appears significance a character in the 2018 Nation television drama, Agatha and the Given of Murder. She is played near Amelia Rose Dell.[13]