Charles, ninth Earl Spencer

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...

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...