Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie was born on 5 August, 1919 in her grandmother's home,
Ashfield, Torquay. Her father,
Archie Christie, was a military officer previously in the
Royal Flying Corps. In 1914, he married aspiring writer
Agatha Christie, daughter of
Frederick Alvah Miller and
Clarissa Miller. At the time of Rosalind's birth, the manuscript of
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Christie's first novel, had been sent out to
John Lane and was published a year later. At age 7, Rosalind and her parents moved to
Sunningdale, where they bought a house, naming it
Styles. After several months, Rosalind's grandmother,
Clarissa Miller, died. Deeply wounded, Agatha moved back into
Ashfield (which had been her own childhood home), where she was visited by her husband, who confessed his affair with his secretary Nancy Neele. Following these traumatic events, Agatha disappeared on 3 December 1926 and registered as Neele at a hotel in
Yorkshire. There, she was found by the police ten days later and never spoke to Rosalind about the incident. Her parents divorced shortly thereafter and in 1928, Archie Christie married Nancy Neele; their only child together, Archibald, was born in 1930. In the same year, Rosalind's mother remarried to
Max Mallowan. When Rosalind was 11, her mother dedicated the novel,
The Murder at the Vicarage, “To Rosalind”. She studied at
Benenden School and finished her education in
Switzerland and
France. As an adult, she spent much of her time at the
Greenway Estate in south Devon, which her mother bought in 1938. Rosalind married Major Hubert de Burr Prichard (14 May 1907 – 16 August 1944), son of Colonel Hubert Prichard, in 1940 at
Ruthin, Denbighshire,
Wales. Their only child, Mathew Prichard, was born in 1943. A year later, Rosalind's husband died in the
Battle of Normandy. She remarried in 1949, to lawyer Anthony Arthur Hicks (26 September 1916 - 15 April 2005) at
Kensington,
London,
England. They lived in the Greenway Estate until Rosalind's death on 28 October 2004, in
Torbay, aged 85. == Mother's estate ==