Rosalind Hudson

Following training in the WRNS she was sent to Bletchley Park, home of the British government's the Government Code and Cypher School. Hudson worked in Hut 8 under cryptanalyst Alan Turing.^[3] She never discussed her work at Bletchley Park following the war.^[2]

After the war Hudson trained as a florist under Constance Spry, and arranged flowers at Claridge's and the Savoy hotels.^[2] The Savoy gave her and her husband a suite overlooking the River Thames as a wedding present. Hudson worked as a florist for Somerset Maugham and his wife, the interior designer Syrie Maugham, and was an amateur pianist and watercolourist.^[2]

Hudson was most notable for her architectural models, being particularly attracted to Georgian architecture.^[2] Her works charted the development of the urban façade during the Georgian period.^[4]

Bath's Building of Bath Collection and Bath's Pump Room contain models made by Hudson. A scale model of Dulwich Picture Gallery made by Hudson stands in the gallery's foyer.^{[citation needed]} Shortly after her death, a special exhibition of her work was held in 2014 at the Bath Museum.^[5]

Hudson made a model of Highgrove, the country house of Charles, Prince of Wales as a present for the Prince and Princess of Wales's wedding in 1981.^[2] Hudson was later commissioned by Charles to alter the model when he added a porch to the house. Hudson made models of other private houses, and was reluctant to accept payment for her models.^[2]

She met her husband, Richard Hudson in 1945. Hudson was serving in the Royal Marines, they married in 1949. They had three sons and two daughters and lived on a farm near Bath.^[2]

She died on 7 July 2013, shortly before her 87th birthday.^[1][2]