Raine Countess Spencer, daughter of novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, was accused by her stepchildren of selling off a 100 years of family history at the family seat, Althorp in Northamptonshire. In 1989 they came to blows at Althorpe when the Princess of Wales pushed the countess down the stairs.

Raine Spencer’s manners belonged to a different, more courtly age. After a few years, the marriage fell apart, and Cartland, rather scandalously, married her ex-husband’s cousin Hugh McCorquodale in 1936.

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.

She is the daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland and Alexander McCorquodale. They split up when she was seven years old, and John Spencer was granted custody of all his children, so Diana was ripped from her mother.

"Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (née McCorquodale; born 9 September 1929) is a British socialite and local politician. Her taste was frequently questioned and her relationship with her stepchildren much discussed by the media. Her parents, John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and Frances Spencer were expecting a boy and were very disappointed when Diana was born.

However, it would be "Acid Raine" who Diana turned to when her marriage to Prince Charles went into free fall. However her mother later alleged that she was fathered by Prince George, Duke of Kent.

Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (née McCorquodale; 9 September 1929 – 21 October 2016) was a British socialite and local politician.She was the daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and the romantic novelist and socialite Dame Barbara Cartland.. ... Princess Diana had a fiery relationship with her stepmother Raine Spencer.

She resented her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, for leaving the family, but also deeply disliked her stepmother, Raine. Raine Spencer was born Raine McCorquodale in 1929, the only child of Alexander McCorquodale, the heir to a printing fortune as well as an officer in …

Raine, Countess Spencer. When Diana was born, on July 1, 1961, her parents’ marriage was already unstable.

For years, Princess Diana looked at her as the wicked stepmother who stole the affections of her father and brought chaos to her ancestral family home. Raine Spencer, stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, has died at 87 after a short illness, her family has announced. But the difficulty was accentuated by Diana’s relationship with her own mother.

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Raine Spencer, the step mother of the late Princess Diana, died Friday at the age of 87. She was 15 when divorcee Raine Legge (nee McCorquodale) married her father in 1976.