Re: Any link between Virginia Pitman and Lt-Col. John Pitman?

On 7 Oct 2005 16:50:38 -0700, "Michael Rhodes"
<migx73allenford2002@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Yvonne Demoskoff wrote:
>> Is there a genealogical relationship between Virginia Pitman (one of
>> Diana, Princess of Wales' flatmates before her marriage) and Lt-Col.
>> (John) Hugh Pitman, whose wife Rosemary (née Dickinson) married
>> secondly Andrew Parker-Bowles?
>>
>
>I've attempted to find a link here without success, Yvonne. The Pitmans
>are in the 1952 Burke's Landed Gentry, and have been dropped since.
>Virginia (who married banker Henry Clarke, as his second wife, in 1991)
>is a daughter of Major Tommy Pitman, of Leyburn, Wensleydale, North
>Yorkshire.
>

Thanks, Michael. I didn't think there was a link, because something
about one might have come out when APB married Rosemary Pitman a few
years ago. His entry in Wikipedia incorrectly stated (presumably
because Hello! magazine also stated incorrectly) that Rosemary was the
former flatmate of Diana, Princess of Wales. That was one of two
errors I found in APB's entry in Wikipedia, the other being that he
was a godchild of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. (According to his
christening announcement in *The Times*, she is not.) His entry no
longer has those two errors :-)

--
Yvonne
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