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   the current Lord Snowdon's marriage to Princess Margaret was dissolved
   in 1978. He married Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, the former wife of film director
   Michael Lindsay.
   
   Why did Lord Snowdon accept a ttile when Princess Anne's husbands did?
   
   nothing in the following bios on his real mother indicated.
   
   Press Association July 6, 1992, Monday
   LORD SNOWDON'S MOTHER DIES
   The Countess of Rosse, mother of photographer Lord Snowdon, has died
   aged 90, it was disclosed today. Her death was reported in the Daily
   Telegraph, which desribed her as a celebrated society beauty between
   the wars and a noted figure in the worlds of gardening and conservation
   who sat on several National Trust committees. Born Anne Messel in 1902,
   she was married twice - to Ronald Armstrong-Jones in 1925 and, after
   that marriage had been disolved, the 6th Earl of Rosse in 1935. The
   countess became a household name in 1960 when her son, the then Anthony
   Armstrong-Jones, married Princess Margaret.
   
   The Times July 11, 1992, Saturday
   Anne, Countess of Rosse, mother of the Earl of Snowdon, died on July 3
   at Nymans, Sussex, aged 90. She was born on February 8, 1902.
   GRAND-DAUGHTER of the Punch cartoonist and early photographer, Edward
   Linley Sambourne, Anne Messel married first Ronald Armstrong-Jones and
   then the 6th Earl of Rosse. In her own right she was one of Britain's
   most distinguished gardeners and a keen conservationist. In London her
   great achievement was the preservation of the intensely Victorian 18
   Stafford Terrace.
   Anne Messel descended from a German family, her grandfather Ludwig
   coming to England and setting up as a successful stockbroker. Others
   were architects and her great-uncle Rudolph was a distinguished
   scientist, who bequeathed a million pounds to the Royal Society. They
   married into a literary family which included Sheridan and Thomas
   Linley, composers. Nymans, the house in Sussex, was bought by Ludwig
   Messel in 1890. Thus the family had been there for more than a century
   and house and garden have been nurtured by grandfather, father and
   latterly Lady Rosse herself. She was raised there and thoroughly
   trained by the Nymans plantsman, James Coomber, whom she described as
   ''a terrifying Mr Macgregor''. He once kept her hard at work for a
   whole day tying up wall-plants with reef knots. When her father cleared
   the gorse coverts for the latest batch of rhododendra from Tasmania and
   Chile, an act that greatly irritated the local hunt, the inferno raged
   so hard that the three Messel children were almost burned in the fray.
   There was Linley, Anne, and her younger brother, Oliver, who raised the
   art of stage design to match the performance being given on stage and
   sometimes surpassed it. Anne was born at 27 Gloucester Terrace, London.
   Soon afterwards the family moved to 104 Lancaster Gate. As a child she
   gazed at the passing carriages in the Bayswater Road and apparently
   could see the cupolas and chimneys of Kensington Palace, without
   knowing the significance it would play in her family's later life. The
   Messels also had a country home, Balcombe House, near St Leonard's
   Forest, but Nymans was always their favourite. Lady Rosse wrote of it:
   ''Little else than farm carts, dog carts, and the carriages of the
   local gentry disturbed the quiet lane....The Weald and woodlands
   belonged to themselves and to the neighbourhood, to live in peacefully,
   to farm in and to enjoy. Sundays were kept as Sundays should be, then,
   and farmers tossed their hay on summer evenings in linen smocks.'' She
   was educated at home by a governess and in June 1922 was presented at
   court, already very pretty with her dark brown eyes. Anne met her first
   husband, Ronald Armstrong-Jones, through her brother Linley. They had
   been at Eton together and Linley invited him to Nymans in 1924 to ask
   his advice about the estate. Anne and Ronald were married in St
   Margaret's, Westminster, in July 1925, the occasion made memorable by
   the imaginative artistic touches of her brother, Oliver. Her father,
   Colonel Messel, gave the young couple the lease of 25 Eaton Terrace,
   with a suitable endowment. It was soon adorned under Oliver Messel's
   baroque influence, tempered with the white of Syrie Maugham. They had
   two children, Susan (the late Viscountess de Vesci) born in 1927, and
   Antony (the present Lord Snowdon) in 1930. During these years Anne took
   a prominent part in English social life. She was photographed by many
   of the great photographers of the day, often in an arcadian setting. As
   she veered more to the aesthetic tastes of her younger brother and his
   friends, so Ronald Armstrong-Jones became more serious and
   disapproving. His love for fishing and wild-fowling were not hers.
   Neither did his precision and desire for punctuality trim well with her
   heady social life. In 1933 they agreed to separate and in due course
   divorce followed. Anne found long and lasting happiness with the Earl
   of Rosse, a man four years her junior. He had worshipped her since he
   was 18 and now he was able to claim her. In The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
   the editor, Mark Amory, revealed that this romance had endured
   difficult moments in Venice: ''The Countess of Rosse stepped innocently
   on to a balcony with another man. Though they were not yet married, the
   jealous Earl of Rosse boxed her ears with some violence. When he sent
   long-stemmed tuberoses in apology, they were returned.'' Anne married
   Rosse in September 1935 and they had two sons, the elder of whom is the
   present Earl of Rosse. Lord Rosse gave her the possibility of leading a
   yet more romantic life in his Gothic Irish castle, Birr, and at
   Womersley Park in Yorkshire, homes to which she had access for the rest
   of her life. Birr she adored, particularly the ancient staircase made
   of yew. Here young Tony Armstrong-Jones played and rowed on the lake
   and here too, later, he recovered from the polio which threatened his
   walking. It was Lady Rosse who gave her son his first camera, though
   she preferred the idea of his being an architect. Nevertheless she
   delighted in his success in his chosen profession. During these years
   her parents lived on at Nymans, which was bequeathed to the National
   Trust in 1953. However, it remained her home and she and Lord Rosse not
   only preserved but nurtured it. Rosse continued the tradition of
   financing Far Eastern expeditions to bring experimental cuttings back
   to this country. As a gardener and householder, Lady Rosse believed
   that both house and garden should reflect ''the personalities and whims
   of those who have trod its paths and the aspirations of its makers and
   improvers; mirroring a glimpse from each generation, that time and
   growth have moulded into a harmonious whole.'' Though Nymans had a
   large garden, it retained an air of intimacy. The house, formerly of a
   modest Regency design, had been subtly converted to seem like a
   fourteenth century building, added to intermittently. When fire
   destroyed part of the old Great Hall in 1947, it was left a part ruin,
   with an abundance of honeysuckle, roses, and lonicera etrusca climbing
   in and out of the empty windows. Lady Rosse was fortunate to possess a
   happy combination of Messel money and Sambourne taste to aid her in her
   work in the garden. Her husband shared her love of it and they relished
   their own expeditions to Portugal and the United States in search of
   plants. In recent years Nymans was run by six National Trust gardeners,
   overseen by Lady Rosse. Socially she occupied a rare position. She was
   grand and very pretty. Society was occasionally disparaging about her.
   Evelyn Waugh referred to her in his diaries as ''Tugboat Annie.'' And
   due to an ancient jealousy with Oliver Messel, she became the *** of
   Cecil Beaton's malice. Yet she possessed a rare serenity, choosing to
   remain aloof from the world, planting her garden, dwelling on the past,
   writing letters to friends very early in the morning, and designing her
   own hand-made Christmas cards. She savoured the life she had shared
   with Oliver and others in the knowledge that, however displeasing the
   books written about them, nobody could take her memories from her. She
   was a good and generous hostess, serving strong drinks, notably Lord
   Rosse's Bacardi cocktail: two parts Bacardi, one Dubonnet, one orange
   and much sugar. In her late eighties she retreated to Nymans, dwelling
   serenely in a world of her own. Lord Snowdon had a cottage on the land,
   likewise a welcome retreat from a busy life.
   
   
   The Irish Times July 16, 1992, CITY EDITION An Appreciation; Pg. 11
   Anne, Countess of Rosse
   On Friday, July 3rd, the Countess of Rosse passed peacefully away at
   her family home, Nymans, Sussex. The magnificent gardens are a National
   Trust property. She was the garden's director. Born Anne Messel, she
   was the only daughter of Colonel Leonard Messel and his wife Mrs Maudt
   Messel. He was a member of the famous banking family. Her maternal
   grandfather was Linley Sambourne the celebrated Punch cartoonist and
   artist. She had two brothers, Linley and Oliver. Oliver Messel became
   the world's highest-paid designer for theatre, film, opera and ballet.
   Anne and Oliver adored each other and she was, similarly inspired with
   a magical imagination and stunning creativity. She helped her brother
   create magnificent properties for his now legendary stage settings. The
   scale models and masks are all in the theatre section of the Victoria
   and Albert museum. His work was shown throughout the world. In 1925,
   she married Ronald Armstrong-Jones QC, only son of the eminent surgeon
   Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones of Carnarvonshire, Wales. Her two children
   of the marriage were Susan, Viscountess de Vesci of Abbeyleix .and
   Anthony, who became Lord Snowdon and married Princess Margaret in 1960.
   Anne's marriage was dissolved in 1934 and in year she married, Earl of
   Rosse. They resided at Birr Castle, Co Offaly, for over 50 .years until
   his death in 1979. They were a unique couple and together made the
   exquisite gardens at Birr more splendid. They travelled extensively in
   China and brought many of the rare eastern species back to their
   beloved Birr. Her support of Lord Rosse in his varied interests was
   inspirational. They served on many National Trust committees and on An
   Taisc and were founder members of the Victorian Society. They had a
   mutual love of theatre, ballet and opera. They were close friends of
   the Edwardian ballerina Karsavina, and friends of the Wicklow-born Dame
   Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet. Lady Rosse made stage
   properties for Dame Margot Fonteyn's "The Sleeping Beauty" which
   reopened Covent Garden Opera House after the war. I first met Lord and
   Lady Rosse during my early days as general manager of the Irish
   National Ballet. Their encouragement, support and generosity to the
   late Joan Denise Moriarty, Professor Aloys Fleischman, the dancers and
   myself were simply beyond words. She arranged the great gala
   performances at Birr Vintage Week. She transformed the Marian Hall,
   Birr, with her magnificent floral displays. Her suppers at the castle
   afterwards were superband her theatrical presentation was incomparable.
   She was a stunning beauty, coupled with a very good mind. She had a
   wicked theatrical wit but it is her laughter, empathy, vivacity, charm
   and real warmth that will linger in our hearts. The shining love
   between Lord and Lady Rosse was enviable to all who were fortunate
   enough to know them. In 1978, Oliver Messel died in Barbados. In 1979
   Lord Rosse died in London. He was succeeded by their eldest son Brendan
   - the seventh Earl of Rosse and his wife Alison. Anne retired to
   Nymans. Another sadness clouded her twilight years - the untimely death
   of her only daughter, Susan, Viscount de Vesci. She continued to visit
   Birr and her letters reflected her deep love for the midlands of
   Ireland. Her ashes will rest at Birr. To Lord and Lady Rosse, their
   family, her sons, Lord Snowdon and the Hon. Martin Parsons and to all
   her relatives, we her friends mourn her passing. We were priviliged to
   bask in her golden sunlight.She was a firm believer in the
   Resurrection, which prompts me to quote Oliver St. John Gogarty's poem
   Non Dolet: "Our friends go with us, as we go Down the long path where
   beauty wends, Where all we love foregathers, so Why should we fear to
   join our friends". TD

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   Anne Messel, Countess of Rosse1
   F, #104141, b. circa 1902, d. circa July 1992
   
   Anne Messel, Countess of Rosse|b. c 1902\nd. c Jul 1992|p10415.htm#i104141|Lt.-Col. Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel|d. 1954|p158.htm#i1577||||||||||||||||
   
   Last Edited=29 May 2008
   
   Anne, Countess of Rosse 2 Anne Messel, Countess of Rosse was born circa 1902. She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel. She married, firstly, Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones, son of Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones and Margaret Elizabeth Roberts, on 22 July 1925. She and Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones were divorced circa 1934. She married, secondly, Sir Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, son of William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse and Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, on 19 September 1935. She died circa July 1992.
   Anne Messel, Countess of Rosse gained the title of Countess of Ross. From 22 July 1925, her married name became Armstrong-Jones. From 19 September 1935, her married name became Parsons.
   Children of Anne Messel, Countess of Rosse and Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones
   Susan Anne Armstrong-Jones+ d. 1986
   Sir Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon+ b. 7 Mar 19301
   Children of Anne Messel, Countess of Rosse and Sir Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse
   William Clere Leonard Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse+ b. 21 Oct 1936
   Desmond Oliver Martin Parsons+ b. 23 Dec 1938
   Citations
   [S3] Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 173. Hereinafter cited as Queen Victoria's Descendants.
   [S300] Michael Rhodes, "re: Ernest Fawbert Collection," e-mail message from (Harrogate, North Yorkshire) to Darryl Roger Lundy, 8 February. Hereinafter cited as "re: Ernest Fawbert Collection".

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