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. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.Īt 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. There is more than one author with this name
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