Rosemary Patricia Anne Walsh was born on 2nd May 1923 in Mombasa, Kenya and she married Anthony Charles Sutherland Savory on 7th December 1946 at the Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, London.
They met in Palestine where she was employed in the Secretariat. Her father was Geoffrey Walsh, CMG, CBE, who was killed in 1946 along with 90 others, when Jewish terrorists blew up part of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed some of the offices of the Government of Palestine. He was at that time Economic Adviser to the Government of Palestine.
Tony and Rosemary had two daughters, Rozanne Barbara and Loraine Mary. Rozanne married Pieter Rossouw, a South African, from whom she became divorced.