Una-Mary Parker (née Nepean-Gubbins; 30 March 1930Profile
encyclopedia.com; retrieved 17 May 2017. – 11 April 2019) was an English journalist and novelist.

Family

Parker was the daughter of Hugh Power Nepean-Gubbins, a businessman, and his wife, Laura. She was a cousin of the

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. She married photographer Archie Parker on 6 October 1951 with whom she had two children. She and her husband, a royal photographer, were a high society couple of the 1960s and 1970s, and regularly made headlines with their couture clothes.

Journalism and fiction

In addition to working as a journalist for the ''

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'', she also spent ten years as social editor of the British magazine, ''The

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''. Parker's first novel, ''Riches'', appeared in October 1987 and has since been widely read internationally. Her novels include ''Scandals (1988)'', ''Temptations (1989)'', ''Veil of Secrets'' (1990), ''Enticements (1990)'',''The Palace Affair (1992)'', ''Forbidden Feelings (1993)'', ''Only the Best (1993)'', ''A Guilty Pleasure (1994)'', ''False Promises (1995)'', ''Taking Control (1996)'', ''A Dangerous Desire (1997)'', ''Dark Passions (1998)'', ''Secrets of the Night (1998)'', ''Broken Trust (1999)'', ''Sweet Vengeance (2000)'', ''Moment of Madness (2001)'', ''Alexia's Secret'' (2008)

Later life

In 2016, Parker revealed that she was suffering from

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. She died on 11 April 2019, aged 89.Una-Mary Parker, Tatler magazine's queen bee of the 1970s social scene and writer of bestselling "bodice-rippers" – obituary
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References

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