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Rosie Roche<\/a>, who was a cousin of Prince William<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Prince Harry<\/a>, tragically died on July 14. She was 20 years old.\n<\/p>\n Roche died at her family’s home in Norton, Wiltshire, with a firearm allegedly close by inside the property. One week after her death, the Wiltshire and Swindon coroner determined that her cause of death was a “traumatic head injury<\/a>,” per the autopsy reviewed by The Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n Roche was a student at Durham University in England and was studying English literature. She was connected to the royal family<\/a> through her grandfather, Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy, who was Princess Diana<\/a>‘s uncle. The royal family has not publicly commented on her death.\n<\/p>\n Here’s everything to know about Prince William and Prince Harry’s late cousin, Rosie Roche, and her sudden death.<\/p>\n She was Prince William and Prince Harry\u2019s cousin <\/p>\n Prince William, Prince of Wales during an official visit at RAF Valley, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex arrives at Westminster Abbey in central London.<\/p>\n Chris Jackson\/Getty; ANDY STENNING\/POOL\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n Rosie Jeanne Burke Roche, born on June 21, 2005, was Prince William and Prince Harry’s cousin. She was the granddaughter of Princess Diana’s uncle Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy, who died in 1984 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, per The New York Times<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Roche’s grandfather had four children, including her father, the Honourable Edmund Hugh Burke Roche. He married Phillipa Katie Victoria Long in 2004, and they welcomed three children. Roche was the oldest of the kids and had siblings Archie (born in 2007) and Agatha (born in 2009).\n<\/p>\n In an obituary published by the\u00a0Yorkshire Post<\/a>\u00a0on July 19, Roche was described as a “darling daughter of Hugh and Pippa, incredible sister to Archie and Agatha, Granddaughter to Derek and Rae Long.” The statement added that there would be a “private family funeral” planned later.\n<\/p>\n The British royal family<\/a> did not immediately issue an official statement, nor have Prince William or Prince Harry publicly spoken out about their cousin’s death.<\/p>\n Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (left) and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex arrive for the unveiling of a statue they commissioned of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n Yui Mok – WPA Pool\/Getty Images<\/p>\n She died from a \u201ctraumatic head injury\u201d <\/p>\n Roche’s official cause of death was listed as a “traumatic head injury,” the Wiltshire and Swindon coroner told several outlets, including The Independent and Gazette and Herald<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n