Full name
Mary Barbara Hamilton McCorquodale DBE
Maiden name
Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland
Gender
Female
Age
98
Date of birth
Birth place
Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK
Date of death:
21 May 2000
Place of death
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Barbara was a prolific writer, mostly of romantic novels. During her lifetime she published 723 novels and her books have been translated into 38 different languages. She wrote her last book aged 97.
In 1991 Barbara was invested as a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire (D.B.E.).
Affair
Barbara tells us " I lost my virginity at 18 to Viscount Elmley' who she claims to have wanted to marry "but I didn't find him attractive, which is just as well because, my dear, there was the most ghastly scandal. "Lord Beauchamp was caught b****ring the footmen and had to leave England in the dead of night to go into exile. I mean, you can't have people b****ring the servants, darling, now can you?"
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