Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

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When the news of Diana and Dodi Fayed’s Paris car crash began to emerge, Raine was ‘the first person to learn the truth’ about the princess’s death, having reached the hospital directly and spoken to them in French.

IG Group said yesterday that it would lose approximately 10 per cent of its workforce as Charlie Rozes, its. Then, two years into the marriage, Johnnie suffered a massive stroke which kept him in hospital for eight months. Whichever side you were on there was one certainty - Raine was not devoid of character or personal strength.On one occasion, they gave a lift to a friend but then popped into a budget hotel by a filling station, and left the friend waiting with the chauffeur in the Rolls. Raine, eventually step-by-step, won her odious stepchildren over and saved Johnny’s life when he had a massive heart attack. Short, glamorous routes, stylish interiors and a buzzing onboard nightlife are all part of Club Med’s mission to attract younger guests.

What was hidden behind the immaculately manicured public façade and her overwhelmingly negative tabloid image? A furious Diana was sent in “to sort him out”, a confrontation that ended up, according to the princess, with her slapping him round the face. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Then there’s the intimate singing of the garden robins — their tunes have a melancholy note at this time of year. Before I read this book – Three Times A Countess – I am ashamed to say I had completely preconceived opinions of Raine Spencer, no doubt fuelled by my guilty secret of sometimes reading the Daily Mail.Gaudoin elegantly depicts the esoteric life of an aristocrat, nicknamed ‘“Acid Raine” by her unimpressed stepdaughter, whose stormy relationships with her husbands and family were only equalled by an extravagant attitude towards fun that saw her remark, while on the verge of matrimony, “what you give out, you get back like a boomerang”. Tina Gaudoin sets out to rehabilitate Raine as a far more nuanced woman, an insouciant, sexy survivor uncredited for her many achievements .