Sandra Howard

Biography

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.

== Life == Born Sandra Clare Paul in August 1940. She was trained at the Lucy Clayton Modelling Agency and as Sandra Paul, she was a well-known model in the 1960s 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. She made a brief foray back to her modelling career in the 1990s by posing for Marks & Spencer catalogues.

== Publications == Glass houses, Simon & Schuster, 2006. ISBN 9781416521983 Ursula's Story, Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN 9781416521990 Ex-wives, Simon & Schuster, 2010. ISBN 9781847392619 A Matter of Loyalty, Simon & Schuster, 2012. ISBN 9781847392602 Tell the Girl, Simon & Schuster, 2014. ISBN 9781471111358

== References ==

== External links == Official website CV BBC biography