![]() ![]() “The day he sent me a cable to say it had been published for 15 guineas really was the best moment of my life. “While in Ceylon I wrote a short story, and my father submitted it to Woman and Home magazine,” she told The Western Morning News of Plymouth, England, in 2013. She was stationed in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) when the war ended. She spent two years working in Portsmouth, England, and in 1944, after D-Day, joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, known as the Wrens. When World War II broke out, Rosamunde left school, learned shorthand and went to work for the Foreign Office. Pilcher told The Times in 1995, “but that time went very quickly.”) Her mother, Helen, raised her in Cornwall. (“He came home every four years when he got a leave,” Ms. Her father, Charles, worked for the India Civil Service and was posted overseas for much of her childhood. 22, 1924, in Lelant, a village on the southwestern tip of Cornwall. ![]() “We occasionally have to explain that one of the reasons Cornwall is so beautiful is because it rains.” “The Germans come to Cornwall thinking it is gloriously sunny here all the time, due to the movies,” one prominent resident, James Molesworth-St. ![]()
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