Rosalind Cubitt was born on August 11, 1921 in London, the daughter of Roland Calver Cubitt, the 3rd Lord Ashcombe (b. 1899, d. 1962), and Sonia Rosemary Cubitt (née Keppel) (b. 1900, d.

Camilla's mother, Rosalind Maud Cubitt, was also the great-great granddaughter of Thomas Cubitt, who came from modest beginnings in Norfolk and was the son of a carpenter. However, Cubitt went on ...