{{Short description|British model and novelist}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Kark [née Gordine], Evelyn Florence [known as Lucie Clayton] (1928–1997), college head|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65698|access-date=2020-10-07|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/65698|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book| title = Tell the Girl: Amazon.co.uk: Sandra Howard: 9781471111358: Books| id = {{ASIN|1471111350|country=uk}}}}</ref> 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}}
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.sandrahoward.co.uk/}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008152412/http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/howards/b-aut.html CV] * [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3226769.stm BBC biography]
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