Sandra Howard
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Sandra Howard was born in 1940, the daughter of an RAF Wing Commander.
She is a former model, the wife of politician and former leader of the Conservative Party Michael Howard and a novelist. As Sandra Paul, she was a well-known model in the 1960s and was featured on the cover of American Vogue for two months in a row, was photographed by David Bailey and Norman Parkinson and was acquainted with John F Kennedy and Frank Sinatra.
She has been married four times. The first of which was when she was 18 to jazz pianist Robin Douglas-Hume, 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 Howard at a Red Cross Ball. He was later named as co-respondent in what became a high-profile divorce case. She and Howard subsequently married in 1975. They have one son, Nicholas, who was born in 1976 and a daughter, Larissa, who was born in 1977.
She has written two novels, and her third, A Question of Loyalty, will be published in 2008. All three have been based on women married to MPs. She made a brief foray back to her modelling career in the 1990s by posing for Marks & Spencer catalogues aged in her 50s.
