Sandra Howard, Lady Howard of Lympne (born August 1940) is an

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, former

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and the wife of Michael Howard, a former leader of the Conservative Party.

Life

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

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for two months in a row, was photographed by David Bailey and

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and was acquainted with John F Kennedy, Frank Sinatra and

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. 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

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, 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

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catalogues.

Publications

* ''Glass houses'', Simon & Schuster, 2006. * ''Ursula's Story'', Simon & Schuster, 2008. * ''Ex-wives'', Simon & Schuster, 2010. * ''A Matter of Loyalty'', Simon & Schuster, 2012. * ''Tell the Girl'', Simon & Schuster, 2014.

References

External links

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BBC biography
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