But Dame Barbara Cartland's will is about to reveal that she left precisely nothing. The gross value of her estate shows a figure of £1,139,123, a respectable sum for a writer who was approaching ...

from her inimitable pink frocks to eyes so thick with mascara that the late Clive James compared them to “two crows that had crashed into a chalk-cliff,” Dame Barbara Cartland was unforgettable.

In the 1970s the redoubtable and eccentric Barbara Cartland, prolific author of hundreds of romantic novels, is interviewed on television, where she expresses anti-feminist views. Despite being ...

A century after her first novel was published, an exhibition is set to show a "whole other side" to the colourful character of Dame Barbara Cartland. The Art of Romance opens today at Hertford ...