Template:Use dmy dates Template:BLP sources 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.
LifeEdit
She was trained at the Lucy Clayton Modelling Agency and as Sandra Paul, she was a well-known model in the 1960s<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She made a brief foray back to her modelling career in the 1990s by posing for Marks & Spencer catalogues.
PublicationsEdit
- Glass houses, Simon & Schuster, 2006. Template:ISBN
- Ursula's Story, Simon & Schuster, 2008. Template:ISBN
- Ex-wives, Simon & Schuster, 2010. Template:ISBN
- A Matter of Loyalty, Simon & Schuster, 2012. Template:ISBN
- Tell the Girl, Simon & Schuster, 2014. Template:ISBN