Raine Spencer
She lived frantically ever after: the jaw-dropping life of Barbara Cartland
Most people’s lives contain vast swathes of boredom but not Cartland’s. Every page of this biography is a cliff-hanger: pistols are forever going off, legs are amputated, proposals are made at gunpoint and suicides are two a penny
High life
There’s a narrow stretch of Chelsea, south of the King’s Road from Oakley Street to Ormonde Gate, that reminds me…
High life
As Jacob Rees-Mogg said in a different context, a happy birthday at my age is a terminological inexactitude. I needed…
