![]() ![]() In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where he studied three years. ![]() A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants never did a lick of work summers at European spas impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in the British colony of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara and Cyril Jansz, who was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. ![]()
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