This article recounts the life of Primrose Dunlop, highlighting her privileged upbringing, lavish lifestyle, philanthropic endeavors, and a scandalous engagement that captivated the media. It explores the circumstances surrounding her relationship with a gay groom, the subsequent unraveling of the engagement, and her later life with a Polish count.
The death of Primrose Dunlop, at 70, recalls a life of great privilege, parties, high living, fundraising, scandal, contentment and, finally, tragically, premature degenerative illness.
In short, what began as a jape between friends developed into being one of the grandest celebrations of the decade. Engagement parties in Melbourne and New York, an annulment and Catholic conversion, the gift of a Bentley, a rented palazzo and a patriarch and basilica waiting in Venice. But the rub was that the groom was gay.
Both bride and groom retreated – he and his partner back to their pink terrace in Woolloomooloo, she to a new life in Melbourne.Anne-Margaret Primrose Dunlop was born in Sydney on March 11, 1954, the only daughter of Roger Dunlop, a former army doctor who would practise as a GP for 61 years in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
On leaving school , Primrose went to Italy to learn Italian and travelled with her mother and step-father, from the Atlas Copco copper mines in Africa to London and New York.In 1975, 20 years after his third divorce, Potter wed Primrose snr, who had divorced Dunlop five years earlier. She became Lady Potter, and gained two step-daughters. The younger, Carolyn Parker Bowles, is the sister-in-law of Andrew, who at the time was married to Camilla, now the Queen.
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