Rose Dugdale never regretted swapping privileged life for the IRA, funeral told

Rose Dugdale, the English aristocrat who led a notorious IRA art heist, had no regrets about turning her back on a life of privilege, her funeral has heard.

Mourners were told that the disinherited heiress, who died earlier this month at the age of 82, always remained an “enigma” to the British establishment, with her legacy forever interwoven in the story of the republican movement in Ireland.

At the close of her cremation service in , the curtains were drawn across her coffini to the soundtrack of the hit It’s A Sin.