The Earl Spencer and Raine, Countess of Dartmouth were married at Caxton Hall, London, on 14 July 1976. Viscount Althorp succeeded his father as the 8th Earl Spencer on 9 June 1975. Countess Spencer oversaw a large restoration and redecoration project of the Spencers' ancestral home. Countess Spencer Īlthorp House in Northamptonshire. The Earl and Countess of Dartmouth were consequently divorced in 1976. In 1973 she began a relationship with John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, her colleague on an architectural heritage committee. She chaired the Covent Garden Development Committee and the government working party for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. In this capacity she took a special interest in environmental planning and ancient buildings. She sat on Westminster's town planning, parks and personnel committees, and was later elected to represent Lewisham South on the London County Council, then Richmond on the Greater London Council. As Lady Lewisham, and later Lady Dartmouth, she remained in local government for the following 17 years. At age 23, she became the youngest member of Westminster City Council as a Conservative, working from her home in Grosvenor Square. They have three daughters.įollowing her marriage, Lady Dartmouth began to take a strong interest in politics. He married Cressida Hogg (daughter of Sir Christopher Anthony Hogg) on 21 December 1995. She married Don Alessandro Paternò Castello, 13th Duke of Carcaci on 19 December 1990.

They have two children: Edward Peregrine Legge (b 1986) and Claudia Rose Legge (b 1989) William has one son, with television producer Claire Kavanagh William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth (23 September 1949).He succeeded to the courtesy title Viscount Lewisham in 1958 and became the 9th Earl of Dartmouth in 1962. She had a successful season, not only being named debutante of the year, but becoming engaged to be married to the heir to an earldom, the Hon. In 1947, 18-year-old Raine McCorquodale was launched as a debutante into London high society. Her parents divorced in 1936, and her mother promptly married Alexander's cousin, Hugh McCorquodale, by whom she had two sons, Ian and Glen. Raine McCorquodale was the only child of novelist Barbara Cartland and Alexander George McCorquodale of Speen in Berkshire, an Army officer who was heir to an old printing fortune. She was the daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and the romantic novelist and socialite Barbara Cartland and the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer ( née McCorquodale 9 September 1929 – 21 October 2016) was a British socialite and local politician. When the grisly scene was uncovered by the police finding Barbara dead on her back, Tony appeared to be in denial of the seriousness of his actions and was somewhat bizarrely in the throes of ordering a Chinese takeaway on the phone.Charlotte Paternó Castello, Duchess of Carcaci It was revealed to be far from the idyllic loving relationship Barbara boasted about and in reality was tainted by a toxic combination of possessiveness, mental illness and alleged incest between mother and son. One ferocious stab with a domestic knife ended what had been a turbulent and at times combative mother-son relationship. It was her tall, thin 25-year-old son ‘Tony’, the only child of Barbara and Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland who hours after she returned home to their exclusive Cadogan Square apartment viciously murdered her in the kitchen. Just before Barbara’s death she had been dining with a friend in London and enthusing about her extravagant, fun-filled life that she shared with her much-adored son, Anthony. The brutal murder was the violent climax to an emotional rollercoaster ride for the beautiful socialite who was linked by marriage to the Bakelite empire – the world’s first plastic. Barbara Daly Baekeland was only 52 when she was stabbed to death in her luxurious Chelsea apartment in London on November 17th 1972.

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