Directors of a new film about Rose Dugdale, who died on Monday, say the movie is a 'balancing act'.
Rose Dugdale, pictured in Dublin in 1974, was born into a wealthy English aristocratic familyThat is how the makers of a new film about Rose Dugdale, who died on Monday aged 83, describe her life. Dugdale, an English heiress turned IRA member, was once the UK's most wanted woman.
In 1974 she was sentenced to nine years in prison for her involvement with the IRA after the art heist. "When she was a debutante she was angry about the occasion where you had to be presented in front of the Queen and called it a 'pornographic affair'."So even at the age of 17, she looked at the world differently to her family," he told the programme.While studying at Oxford, she and former Tory MP Edwina Currie shared an economics tutor, Peter Ady, with whomShe later told author Sean O'Driscoll Ady had been the "love of her life".
Christine Molloy said the couple stumbled across her story while researching the history of Russborough House for a documentary.
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