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Showing posts with label Dame Barbara Cartland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dame Barbara Cartland. Show all posts
Friday, 14 December 2018
Saturday, 22 October 2016
"Acid Raine" no more
“I don’t care what people say behind my back. What I want is for them to be nice to my face.”
Daughter of the inimitable Barbara Cartland, stepmother to Diana Princess of Wales; from her three marriages, she became first Lady Lewisham and later Countess Dartmouth, then Countess Spencer, and latterly, and briefly, Contesse de Chambrun. The Spencer children resented her arrival intensely and nick-named her "Acid Raine", yet in both her political career and in her social life she was admired for her steely and trustworthy nature. In the end even Diana reconciled with her.
And she had great hair!
RIP Raine, Countess Spencer (born Raine McCorquodale, 9th September 1929 – 21st October 2016)
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Think pink
"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down." Barbara Cartland
Dame Barbara Cartland by Allan Warren
The world's most prolific authoress in history, and pink icon, Dame Barbara Cartland was born on 9 July 1901.
From her obituary in The Independent:
Here she is, "singing" a couple of typically romantic numbers:
A camp treasure.
Barbara Cartland books and cover art
http://www.barbaracartland.com/
13 Things You Genuinely Never Knew About Barbara Cartland
Dame Barbara Cartland by Allan Warren
The world's most prolific authoress in history, and pink icon, Dame Barbara Cartland was born on 9 July 1901.
From her obituary in The Independent:
It was never clear whether she was strictly serious about her rather rococo image because, as she herself said, "Nobody sends up Barbara Cartland better than I do myself."
Her remarks to the press, however slight, were attention-getters.
"I always use boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry," she once told Martyn Harris of the Sunday Telegraph.
Here she is, "singing" a couple of typically romantic numbers:
A camp treasure.
Barbara Cartland books and cover art
http://www.barbaracartland.com/
13 Things You Genuinely Never Knew About Barbara Cartland
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