Background
Mark Palmer is the son of Sir Anthony Frederick Mark Palmer, 4th Baronet (1914–1941) and Henriette, Lady Abel Smith.
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Education
Palmer was educated at Eton and spent a year at the University of Oxford.
Career
His godmother is Queen Elizabeth World War II From 1956 to 1959 he was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth World War II In 1966, Palmer and Alice Pollock founded the early male modelling agency English Boy in Chelsea, London, with Palmer as manager. 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." In 1967, the New York Times reported that Palmer"s English Boy had 12 young men on its books, "they are lean in the Twiggy style and look as though they need a good night"s sleep. They don"t smile.", and that they often buy their clothes from Hung On You.
Other clients included Christine Keeler, who Palmer wanted to represent for films and television as well as modelling, but according to Keeler, "nothing developed".
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 purchased the Grade II listed Old Rectory at Weston-under-Penyard, near Ross-on-Wye, which Bolan owned until 1977.
He made by hand the coffin for the 1999 funeral at London"s Brompton Cemetery of the artists" model and memoirist Henrietta Moraes, who had spent time with Palmer in the early 1970s in his "cavalcade of horse-drawn caravans".
