Lady Diana Frances Spencer

BC , English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald , however, points that her...

The author's relations with her daughter were sometimes difficult, as she longed for a son and disapproved of Raine's intellectual attitude during her adolescence. Cartland remembered years later: She thought I was unkind because I...

A film about her, The Duchess, released in 2008, centred on the pains and frustrations of her marriage, ignoring her literary though not her political life. Advertising for the film used as tagline There...

Late in life MW was violently opposed to Thatcher ite conservatism. Her political involvements were idiosyncratic and partisan. Her charity work for Prisoners of Conscience gave her a recurrent desire to strangle the Home Secretary...

HM returned to the topic of young, beautiful royal bodies in an article on Princess Diana , entitled The Princess Myth and published just as Diana' sons brought her memory alive on television.

In spring 2007 she contributed a foreword to the final item in the Guardian newspaper's booklet series of Great speeches of the 20th century: the speech delivered by Earl Spencer at the funeral of...

RC published Diana : The Portrait, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela and an introduction by Lady Sarah McCorquodale . It is authorized by the estate of the late princess and by the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fund

RC planned a book-length study or biography of Nelson Mandela (similar to that of Princess Diana ), but instead she contributed interviews to Mandela: The Authorised Portrait by Mac Maharaj and A. M. Kathrada ...

A few years after the high-profile weddings of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and the Duke and Duchess of York , AF 's thriller Your Royal Hostage presented Jemima Shore covering a British royal wedding for tv.

Her protagonist, Alison Harte or Al, is a spiritualist medium. She works in prosaic outer London suburbs, purveying messages of staggeringly banal character from dead relations: the tone is often funny as well as...