Rosalind Rajagopal - Marriage and Friendships

Marriage and Friendships

In 1927 Rosalind married D. Rajagopal while in London, in a wedding organized with great care and enthusiasm by Annie Besant, who was approving of the couple's relationship. D. Rajagopal, Krishnamurti's friend and editor, and Rosalind had been charged with looking after Krishnamurti's interests by Mrs. Besant following the death of Nitya. The three lived in close proximity in Ojai from the late 1920s through the 1960s, and the Rajagopals were closely involved with Krishnamurti when he broke with the Theosophical Society and began his independent speaking career in 1929.

Rosalind's marriage was not a happy one; after the birth of a daughter, Radha, in 1931, the couple became physically estranged, and their relationship was never close again. (The Rajagopals finally divorced in the early 1960s). According to Radha Rajagopal Sloss, the long affair between Krishnamurti and Rosalind began in 1932 and it endured for about twenty-five years. However the ending of the relationship was not amicable, and damaged their friendship, which never recovered.

During the late 1930s Krishnamurti and Rosalind became close friends with Aldous Huxley and his wife Maria, with frequent visits and correspondence. Huxley reputedly modeled the character of Virginia in his 1939 novel, After Many a Summer, on Rosalind. She was present at Huxley's deathbed on 22 November 1963.