Raine Spencer with her daughter Charlotte Di Carcaci outside Wikipedia. Raine Spencer with her daughter Charlotte Di Carcaci outside Harrods in Knightsbridge, central London, where Father Christmas was greeted by hundreds of children. She was known for her extraordinary helmet of lacquered bouffant hair and her unhappy relationship with her stepchildren, as well as her varied social life and romantic partners. Before she was Princess Diana, she was Diana Spencer, the third of four children born to the eighth Earl Spencer and Frances Shand Kydd, and the youngest of three girls. If Johnnie Spencer had died in September 1978, there would be no fairy tale wedding of Diana Spencer to the Prince of Wales. For a May 16, 2020 - Raine was married to Diana's father John Spencer from 1976 until he died in 1992. Raine Spencer, stepmother of Princess Diana and daughter of romance novelist Barbara Cartland, has died. Raine Spencer: Friend not foe As the rift between Diana and the royals grew, so did her closeness to her after all, the daughter of the fluffy pink romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland. Raine certainly did not marry Johnnie Spencer for his money. Advertisement. British socialite and local politician. Americans can catch Princess Diana's "Wicked" Stepmother on the Smithsonian Channel starting Oct. 28. Lady Spencer, the only daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland, enjoyed a position at the centre of London society for more than 60 years, having been named Deb of the Year in 1947. Raine was born on September 9, 1929 and was the daughter of romantic novelist and socialite Dame Barbara Cartland. Telegraph, London. British aristocrat and socialite. Bossy, showy, brassy, unsympathetic and businesslike, she was loathed by her step-kids from day-one. With four years between Diana and her middle sister, Jane, they were separated by a Raine Spencer and her amazing hair. Raine Spencer had three sons and a daughter by her first marriage to the 9th Earl of Dartmouth, who died in 1997. Countess Raine Spencer and her step-daughter, Princess Diana I am not a royalist so it may have seemed strange watching Channel 4s documentary Princess Dianas Wicked Step-mother. Diana and her older sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, now 65, and Lady Jane Fellowes, 63, did not grow up in close proximity. But that didnt stop her playing a full part in Norfolk life when she and Lord Dartmouth divorced and she married the newly divorced Earl Spencer, then living at Park House, Sandringham, with his children, including of course his youngest daughter, Lady Diana Spencer. Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer was born with the honorific "The Honourable"; she acquired the courtesy title "Lady" in 1975, when her grandfather died and her father became the 8th Earl Spencer. * as he arrived to take up Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images File photo dated 02/02/71 of Barbara Cartland with her daughter Countess Raine Spencer, the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, who has died aged 87 after a short illness, her family has said. In July, Christies will offer The Collection of Raine, Countess Spencer for auction. Raine, Countess Spencer, was born Raine McCorquodale in 1929, the only child of a short union between the army officer and printing heir Alexander McCorquodale and Barbara Cartland. No daughter was more in love with her father than Diana with Lord Spencer. She married Earl Spencer, Diana's father, in 1976. The daughter of Robert Francis St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn and Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy.