Sitting amid the haul was the architect of the theft: Rose Dugdale, an Oxford-educated heiress who had once curtsied before Queen Elizabeth II during a debutante soiree at Buckingham Palace.

Rose Dugdale, the English aristocrat who led a notorious IRA art heist, has died at the age of 82. The death of the disinherited heiress comes just days before a film about her life is to be ...