Sandra Howard
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Sandra Howard, Lady Howard of Lympne (born August 1940) is an English novelist, former model and the wife of Michael Howard, a former leader of the Conservative Party.
Life
She was trained at the Lucy Clayton Modelling Agency and as Sandra Paul, she was a well-known model in the 1960s{{Cite ODNB|title=Kark [née Gordine], Evelyn Florence [known as Lucie Clayton] (1928–1997), college head|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65698|access-date=2020-10-07|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/65698|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8}} and was featured on the cover of American Vogue for two months in a row. She was photographed by David Bailey and Norman Parkinson and was acquainted with John F Kennedy, Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan.
She has been married four times, the first of which was when she was 18 to jazz pianist Robin Douglas-Home, the nephew of the former Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home. She has a son, Sholto, from this marriage. She was later married to David Wynne-Morgan, a publicist, whom she also divorced. She then married advertising executive Nigel Grandfield.
It was while married to Grandfield that she met Michael Howard at a Red Cross Ball. She and Howard subsequently married in 1975. They have a son and a daughter.
She has written five novels, the most recent, Tell the Girl, was published on 3 July 2014.{{cite book| title = Tell the Girl: Amazon.co.uk: Sandra Howard: 9781471111358: Books| id = {{ASIN|1471111350|country=uk}}}} She made a brief foray back to her modelling career in the 1990s by posing for Marks & Spencer catalogues.
Publications
- Glass houses, Simon & Schuster, 2006. {{ISBN|9781416521983}}
- Ursula's Story, Simon & Schuster, 2008. {{ISBN|9781416521990}}
- Ex-wives, Simon & Schuster, 2010. {{ISBN|9781847392619}}
- A Matter of Loyalty, Simon & Schuster, 2012. {{ISBN|9781847392602}}
- Tell the Girl, Simon & Schuster, 2014. {{ISBN|9781471111358}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.sandrahoward.co.uk/}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008152412/http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/howards/b-aut.html CV]
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3226769.stm BBC biography]
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Category:English female models
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Category:English women novelists
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Category:20th-century English women writers