Rosemary Millicent Ward, Viscountess Ednam ARRC (née Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 9 August 1893 – 21 July 1930) was a British socialite who served as a nurse in France during the First World War.

Born at the family home at Dunrobin Castle in Sutherland on 8 August 1893, the young Lady Rosemary featured in the society pages of newspapers from an early age.

Her mother went to Belgium in early August 1914, having organised her own ambulance unit, but was captured by the Germans when Namur was occupied towards the end of that month.

[7] At the end of the war, Rosemary was awarded an Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC) in the 1919 Birthday Honours.

[8] Leveson-Gower and the future Edward VIII had known each other since childhood as the Prince's parents, King George V and Queen Mary had often been guest of the Duke of Sutherland.

They met again in France during the war as the Prince visited the hospital to see another friend, Rosemary's sister-in-law, Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland.

[9] As the heir to the throne, the Prince needed the permission of the King to marry - a requirement of the Royal Marriages Act 1772.

The first Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick was Rosemary's half-aunt and had been a mistress of Edward VII, the King's father.

[13] Once Rosemary was made aware of the King and Queen's views her demeanour was that she had never wanted to marry the Prince of Wales.

In 1927 the Viscountess became president of the North Staffordshire Cripples' Aid Society (founded by her mother in 1900) and began a campaign to raise funds for extending the Hartshill Orthopaedic Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.

While there the Viscount contracted typhoid fever and while he was still recuperating the Viscountess needed to return to London to meet with the architect designing a memorial garden for Jeremy.

[27] The inquest was resumed on 13 August 1930 the jury returned a verdict "that the victims met their death falling from an aeroplane, the cause of the accident being unknown".