- Kenneth Rose
Kenneth Vivian Rose (born 1924) is a royal biographer in the
United Kingdom .Rose is 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".In April 2005, days before the wedding of
Prince Charles andCamilla 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".elected works
* "Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron" (2003)
* "King George V" (1983)
* "Kings, Queens & Courtiers : intimate portraits of the Royal House of Windsor from its foundation to the present day" (1985)
* "Who’s Who in the Royal House of Windsor" (1985)
* "The Later Cecils" (1975)
* "Superior Person; a portrait of Curzon and his circle in late Victorian England" (1969)External links
* [http://www.unca.edu/~moseley/whitbread.html Whitbread awards]
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