 Other than this, for the remainder of his years he lived a more or less idle life, mainly on handouts, mostly in Rome and finally in Malta, where he died in 1968.In 1933, Rodd was married to the novelist and socialite Nancy Mitford, daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and one of the famous Mitford sisters.They divorced in 1957, although by then the marriage had been over in all but name for some years.