Sir Mark Palmer, 5th Baronet

Sir Charles Mark Palmer, 5th Baronet (born 21 November 1941) is a British modelling agency manager who formed one of the first modelling agencies devoted to the male image, and later adopted an alternative lifestyle, travelling around Britain in a horse-drawn caravan.

Early life Mark Palmer is the son of Sir Anthony Palmer, 4th Baronet and Henriette, Lady Abel Smith. His godmother was Queen Elizabeth II.

Palmer was educated at Eton College and spent a year at the University of Oxford.

From 1956 to 1959, he was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II. As Palmer said, "to change the image of British manhood and put the boy, as opposed to the girl, on the magazine cover in the future." Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg were also on the agency's books, but no work resulted.

In 1972, Palmer helped Marc Bolan's wife June with a wide-ranging search for a country house, and they bought the Grade II listed Old Rectory at Weston-under-Penyard, near Ross-on-Wye, which Bolan owned until 1977.

Personal life Palmer was married to the astrologer Catherine Tennant (1947-2021), daughter of Baron Glenconner, who wrote a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph's magazine.

The couple had two children, a daughter Iris and a son Arthur, the latter being the heir to the baronetcy.

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