Rosemary Altea

Rosemary Altea (born Rosemary Edwards) is a British author who describes herself as a medium and healer. She has appeared on various programs, including Larry King Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and featured in Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, becoming one of their most watched episodes. She was a regular guest on the Leeza Gibbons Show and Maury Povich Show, and was interviewed by Roseanne Barr on the Roseanne Show. She has been featured on international prime time television shows including Prime Time Live with Diane Sawyer, 20/20, NBC Dateline, This Morning in the UK and the Maurizio Costanzo and Carlo Nesti shows in Italy. She has written seven books and was the founder of the Rosemary Altea Association of Healers.

Early life Altea was born in 1938 as Rosemary Edwards in Leicester, England to Lilian and William Edwards, and has two brothers and three sisters. Rosemary describes having had psychic visions from a young age, causing parents to threaten to commit her to a mental asylum. The same year, struggling to make ends meet and take care of her daughter, she began charging £3.50 per session for psychic reading and adopted the name Rosemary Altea.