Kenneth Rose, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Kenneth Rose

Royal biographer and winner of the Whitbread Book Award

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1924

Date of Death: 28-Jan-2014

Profession: writer, biographer

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Kenneth Vivian Rose (15 November 1924 – 28 January 2014) was a royal biographer in the United Kingdom.
The son of Ada and Jacob Rosenwige, a Bradford Jewish surgeon, Rose was educated at Repton and New College, Oxford.
He served in the Welsh Guards 1943-6 and was attached to Phantom, 1945.
He did a brief spell of teaching as an Assistant Master at Eton College, 1948.
His journalistic career began when he joined the Editorial Staff of the Daily Telegraph, a position he held from 1952 to 1960.
He founded and wrote the Albany Column, 1961–97, for the Sunday Telegraph.Rose was an award-winning writer, having won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award in the biography category in 1983 for his book, King George V.
He shared that award with Victoria Glendinning, who won for her book Vita.
He was appointed CBE in the 1997 New Year Honours. In April 2005, days before the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, a British tabloid published that the couple were related, as ninth cousins, by way of the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Rose said that, although the apparent familiarity between the two was not well established, a family connection was "perfectly factible".Rose is not considered to be in the front rank of published diarists, due to his personal discretion and snobbery.
An inveterate social climber, he was nicknamed 'Climbing Rose'.