Raine, Countess Spencer was born Raine McCorquodale on September 9, 1929, the only child of the celebrated romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland and her first husband, Alexander McCorquodale, an Army officer who was an heir to a printing fortune. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dame Barbara Cartland (Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, July 9, 1901 - May 21, 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romantic fiction of all time. ...

She was married 1st in 1947 to the Hon. Gerald Humphrey Legge, later the 9th Earl of Dartmouth. They had four children, and divorced in 1976.

Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, married 2nd at Caxton Hall, London, England, on July 14, 1976, Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer. Deeply unpopular with her stepchildren, who included the late Diana, Princess of Wales, she was ridiculed by them and other family members as "Acid Raine" and her time at Althorp, the Spencer family seat — a period that saw the ancestral house operatically redecorated and treasures sold — dismissed as the "Raine of Terror." The Earl died in 1992, upon which (according to Kitty Kelley's book The Royals) Diana and her brother put her clothes into black rubbish bags and kicked them down the stairs, and refused to let her remove any furniture from the ancestral home without providing proof of purchase. The book also claims that on another occasion Diana pushed Raine herself down the stairs. Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (January 24, 1924 - March 29, 1992) was born at 24 Sussex Square, London, England, the son of Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975) and his wife, the former Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton (1897-1972), daughter of the 3rd Duke of Abercorn. ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) (1 July 1961–31 August 1997) was the first wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. ... Althorps entrance front in the 1820s. ... Author Kitty Kelley Kitty Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling biographies of celebrities and politicians--which have led to her international--and controversial--reputation as the first lady of the unauthorized biography genre. ...

Raine, Countess Spencer, married thirdly, in 1993, Jean-François Pineton, Comte de Chambrun, a descendant of the marquis de La Fayette and a member of a prominent French family related to the presidential Roosevelts. Son of Jean-Pierre Pineton de Chambrun (a deaf biochemist-artist marquis) and a great-grandson of Ohio heiress Maria Longworth Storer Nichols (the founder of Rookwood Pottery), he was previously married to Josalee Douglas, an American debutante, who was a first cousin of the late Princess Margaret's intimate friend, Sharman Douglas. Chambrun's courtship of the widowed Lady Spencer lasted 33 days before they married. Upon the couple's divorce, in 1995, the Countess de Chambrun chose to reclaim her previous title of Raine, Countess Spencer. Marie-Joseph-Paul-Roch-Yves-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (September 6, 1757–May 20, 1834), was a French aristocrat most famous for his participation in the American Revolutionary War and early French Revolution. ... HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose Armstrong-Jones, née Windsor; (August 21, 1930—February 9, 2002) was a member of the British Royal Family, the second eldest daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and sister of the current British... Sharman Douglas (1929-1996) was an American socialite. ...

Countess Spencer is a member of the board of directors of Harrods, the department store owned by the father of Diana, Princess of Wales' lover, Dodi Al-Fayed, who died with her in the car crash that claimed their lives in 1997. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) (1 July 1961–31 August 1997) was the first wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. ... Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (April 15, 1955 - August 31, 1997) was the son of Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of the British department store Harrods and the Hôtel Ritz Paris. ...