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Sandra Howard


 
 

Sandra Howard was born in 1940, the daughter of an RAF Wing CommanderWing Commander (rank)

Wing Commander is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries....
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She is a former model, the wife of politician and former leader of the Conservative PartyConservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of...
 Michael HowardMichael Howard

Michael Howard, QC is a British politician and former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party from Nov...
 and a novelist. As Sandra Paul, she was a well-known model in the 1960s and was featured on the cover of American VogueVogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries around the world....
 for two months in a row, was photographed by David Bailey and Norman ParkinsonNorman Parkinson

Norman Parkinson was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer....
 and was acquainted with John F Kennedy and Frank SinatraFrank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra was an American singer and actor....
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She has been married four times. The first of which was when she was 18 to jazz pianist Robin Douglas-Hume, the nephew of the former Prime MinisterPrime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is in practice the most important political o...
, Alec Douglas-HomeAlec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home1, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC, 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a Britis...
. 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 Howard at a Red Cross Ball. He was later named as co-respondent in what became a high-profile divorceDivorce

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse....
 case. She and Howard subsequently married in 1975. They have one son, Nicholas, who was born in 1976 and a daughter, Larissa, who was born in 1977.

She has written two novels, and her third, A Question of Loyalty, will be published in 2008. All three have been based on women married to MPs. She made a brief foray back to her modelling career in the 1990s by posing for Marks & SpencerMarks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer plc is a British retailer....
 catalogues aged in her 50s.

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  • BBC bio