About the Speaker

Rosalind Freeborn

Rosalind started her career as a book publicist and moved into  the world of music handling the publicity for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. While her family was young she set up her own PR consultancy supporting clients involved with film, television and the arts. She then promoted the baby charity, Tommy’s and Great Ormond Street Hospital.  She became a director within a PR consultancy working with creative clients in the fields of art, design, retail and architecture. In 2002, Rosalind followed her childhood dream and went to City & Guilds of London Art School, acquiring a Higher Diploma in Fine Art. However, having learnt how to paint in oils, she found herself drawn to paper collage and concentrated on that medium. She exhibits and sells her work regularly. In 2022 Rosalind appeared on a Channel 4 life drawing programme demonstrating her unique collage technique using fragments of paper. She was prompted to write Prince George & Master Frederick after investigating her grandmother’s story that her family might, in some way, be connected to King George III. Her research uncovered the real-life history of Frederick Blomberg and she found his story so fascinating that she wrote this novel. This is her first published work. Rosalind lives in north London, is married to Simon Battersby, a film editor, has four grown-up daughters and five grandchildren.