Sandra Howard

Sandra Howard was born in 1940, the daughter of an RAF Wing Commander.

She is a former model, the wife of politician and former leader of the Conservative Party Michael Howard and a novelist. 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, was photographed by David Bailey and Norman Parkinson and was acquainted with John F Kennedy and Frank Sinatra.

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 Howard at a Red Cross Ball. He was later named as co-respondent in what became a high-profile divorce case. She and Howard subsequently married in 1975. They have one son, Nicholas, who was born in 1976 and a daughter, Larissa, who was born in 1977.

She has written two novels, and her third, "A Matter of Loyalty", will be published in 2008. She made a brief foray back to her modelling career in the 1990s by posing for Marks & Spencer catalogues aged in her 50s.

External links

* CV [http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/howards/b-aut.html]
* BBC bio [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3226769.stm]