Profile
Barbara Cartland
Politician + Novelist + Writer
Female
Born
Jul 9, 1901
Hometown
Edgbaston
Died
May 21, 2000
Death Place
Hatfield, Hertfor...
Nationality
English
Other Names
Mary Barbara Hami...
Dame Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000), was an English author, one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century. As Barbara Cartland she is known for her numerous fictional romantic novels, but she also wrote under… Read More
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Diary: Compound Interests The IndependentGoogle News - Aug 25, 2011
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Diary: Gaddafi Daffy For Cartland The IndependentGoogle News - Aug 23, 2011
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Collins's Class On Display The AustralianGoogle News - Aug 22, 2011
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Sex, Psychics And Moos Of The World Daily MailGoogle News - Aug 17, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1901
Birth
Born in 1901.
THIRTIES
1936
35 Years Old
After the McCorquodales' 1936 divorce, which involved charges and countercharges of infidelity, Cartland married a man her husband had accused her of dallying with — his cousin Hugh McCorquodale, a former military officer.
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1940
39 Years Old
This was followed soon after by her father's death on a Flanders battlefield in World War I. However, her enterprising mother opened a London dress shop to make ends meet — "Poor I may be," Polly Cartland once remarked, "but common I am not" — and to raise Cartland and her two brothers, Anthony and Ronald, both of whom were eventually killed in battle, one day apart, in 1940.
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FORTIES
1947
46 Years Old
Their daughter, Raine McCorquodale (born in 1929), whom Cartland later alleged was the daughter of Prince George, Duke of Kent, became "Deb of the Year" in 1947.
FIFTIES
1953
52 Years Old
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The war marked the beginning of a lifelong interest in civic welfare and politics for Barbara Cartland, who served the War Office in various charitable capacities as well as the St. John Ambulance Brigade; in 1953 she was invested at Buckingham Palace as a Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem for her services.
1955
54 Years Old
In 1955 Barbara Cartland was elected a councillor on Hertfordshire County Council as a Conservative and served for nine years.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1976
75 Years Old
Raine's marriage to the 9th Earl of Dartmouth, however, ended in divorce, and she married the 8th Earl Spencer on 14 July 1976, making Barbara Cartland the stepgrandmother of Lady Diana Spencer, later Princess of Wales.
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1980
79 Years Old
The Mountbatten Memorial Trust, established by Mountbatten's great-nephew Charles, Prince of Wales after Mountbatten was assassinated in Ireland, was the recipient of the proceeds of this book on its release in 1980.
Despite their tame story lines, Barbara Cartland's later novels were highly successful. By 1983 she rated the longest entry in the British Who's Who (though most of that article was a list of her books), and was named the top-selling author in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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1984
83 Years Old
In 1984, she was awarded the Bishop Wright Air Industry Award for this contribution.
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1991
90 Years Old
In 1991, aged 90, Cartland was invested by Queen Elizabeth II as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in honour of the author's nearly 70 years of literary, political, and social contributions.
1997
96 Years Old
Cartland did not get on with her step-granddaughter Diana, Princess of Wales, who notably did not invite Cartland to her wedding to the Prince of Wales. Cartland was openly critical of Diana's subsequent divorce, though the rift between them was mended shortly before Diana's fatal car crash in Paris in 1997.
According to an obituary published in The Daily Telegraph on 22 May 2000, Cartland reportedly broke off her first engagement, to a Guards officer, when she learned about sexual intercourse and recoiled.
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