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Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (née McCorquodale; 9 September 1929 – 21 October 2016) was a British socialite and local politician. She was the daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and the romantic novelist and socialite Barbara Cartland and the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
- 21 October 2016 (aged 87), Mayfair, London, England
- Raine McCorquodale, 9 September 1929, 6 Culross Street, Mayfair, London, England
- Socialite and politician
- North Sheen Cemetery
Oct 24, 2008 · She married her first husband, Alexander McCorquodale, on April 23, 1927, at St Margaret's, Westminster, in a dress made by the young Norman Hartnell. 'Sachie', her name for Alexander, bought...
Raine Spencer, née McCorquodale, was born in Newbury, Berkshire in 1929, the only child of romance novelist Barbara Cartland and army officer Alexander McCorquodale. When Raine wed Diana’s ...
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Jan 29, 2021 · Princess Diana with her mother, Frances Shand-Kydd, her sister, Sarah McCorquodale, Prince William and Harry and her nieces and nephew, Laura, Alexander and Eleanor Fellowes and Emily McCorquodale whilst on a holiday at Necker Island in 1990 Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
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[citation needed] She claimed to have declined 49 marriage proposals before marrying Captain Alexander "Sachie" George McCorquodale, on 23 April 1927, a British Army officer from Scotland and heir to a printing fortune. They divorced in 1933, and he died from heart failure in 1964.
Brief Life History of Alexander George. When Captain Alexander George McCorquodale was born on 7 August 1897, in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Cowan McCorquodale, was 39 and his mother, Maggie Janet Cox, was 34. He married Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland on 23 April 1927, in St George Hanover Square ...
Oct 31, 2023 · She became well-known on the London social scene as one of the ‘Bright Young People’, and threw famously glamorous parties. Barbara married Alexander McCorquodale in 1927 after rejecting no less than 56 other proposals of marriage.
