In 1965, Anne married Christopher Beverley, who died six months later of kidney failure. With the help of the British High Commission in Spain, Anne returned to England and settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where she enrolled her son known as John in Sandown Court School (now The Skinners' Kent Academy). Shortly after Ritchie's birth, he and his mother moved to Ibiza, where they expected to be joined by his father, who did not appear and provided no financial support-Anne reportedly sold marijuana to get by. Anne had dropped out of school and joined the British Army, where she met Ritchie's father, a guardsman at Buckingham Palace and a semi-professional trombone player on the London jazz scene. Simon John Ritchie was born on in Lewisham to John and Anne Ritchie (1933–1996). 13 Film, video, television, documentaries.
2 The Flowers of Romance and Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976).
