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Do you know that the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie, one of the best female authors of all time had a biological daughter who played an iconic role in her mother's life, more importantly post her death?
What was her name? How was her relationship with Agatha Christie?
What role did she play towards Agatha Christie's literary estate?
Was she the daughter of Agatha Christie's first husband or second?
You will get answers to all the above questions and many more in this blog of bx-zone.com .
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Agatha Christie's daughter - Rosalind Hicks
Agatha Christie had one biological daughter
who she gave birth to on 5 Aug 1919.
She named her ‘Rosalind’.
‘Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie’ was born in Agatha's mother's home in Ashfield.
Her father was Archibald Christie, a first world War veteran in the Royal Flying Corps later who joined the business world.
Archibald Christie and Agatha tied the knot in 1914 and Rosalind was born 5 years after their marriage.
The birth of Rosalind proved lucky for Agatha as during that time, the script of The Mysterious Affair at Styles was sent to John Lane which got published for the world in 1920 in NewYork and 1921 in London.
But in 1926 when Rosalind was 7, Agatha and Archibald moved to Sunningdale, where they purchased a house which they named ‘Styles’.
Shortly after, Agatha's mother Clarissa Miller died so she moved back to Ashley with Rosalind.
Archibald would visit Agatha there but shortly after he confessed his affair with his secretary Nancy Neele.
Dejected, Agatha Christie left her famous home ‘Styles’ only to be found 10 days later in a hotel in Harrogate where she registered herself as Neele.
Interestingly, her novel ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ was published just 6 months ago.
Agatha never spoke about what happened in those 10 days to anyone, she didn't even reveal this disturbing episode even to Rosalind, an unsolved mystery in the personal life of the Queen of Mystery. How ironical?
Rosalind's parents divorced post this incident.
Her mother's famous mysterious disappearance and then her parents’ divorce was hard on Rosalind
In 1928, Archibald married his secretary and on the other hand, Agatha Christie married an archeologist Sir Max Mallowan who was 15 years younger than her.
Rosalind attended the famous Benenden school which is a private boarding school in Kent, London and also went to France and Switzerland for education.
However, Rosalind's stepfather Max Mallowan introduced her to archeology.
She also went on travel expeditions with him and Agatha.
As a young adult she also spent time in her mother's Greenway estate on River Dart in Devon, England which is now owned by the National Trust.
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