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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some reason," he says. "I did Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again. I was the villainous half-brother Bruno, who rapes Courteney Cox and steals all the family champagne and gives it to the Nazis--fantastic. And there's a very good one based on the Barbara Cartland novel Cupid Rides Pillion. I was the highwayman. When I'm uncomfortable in a role, my voice goes high, so it's quite amusing to see me jump out of the bushes with all my sexy gear on and say"--he squeaks--'Stand and deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hugh Grant's Sorry Now | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...meal with his father in the downstairs dining room until he was seven. The arrival of a new mistress in 1977 brought no burst of happiness to the manor. Charles first discovered that his father had married Raine, the former Countess of Dartmouth and daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland, from his headmaster at boarding school. He and Diana quickly came to dislike their stepmother, dubbing her "Acid Raine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Princess Diana: HIS SISTER'S KEEPER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...Shields and Tawny Kitaen. His past was littered with women he had romanced and rejected, as well as with creditors still hoping to be paid for meals consumed and lodging used long ago. And then there was that vexing question of his family's nationality. Romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, Diana's stepgrandmother, spoke for xenophobic Britons everywhere when she sniffed, "My only concern is that this Dodi is a foreigner." A writer for London's Daily Mail was cruder, warning Diana that by marrying into the clan of Al Fayeds she would be "trading in one prison, the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCESS DIANA, 1961-1997: DODI AL FAYED: DIANA'S UNLIKELY SUITOR | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Though Barbara Cartland has just written a new romantic novel, The Kaiser's Ball, not all is pure and Aryan in popular culture. A newspaper critic complains about the "pernicious Negroid wailings" of an unnamed group of young Englishmen from Liverpool who are playing to packed audiences of German youths in Hamburg. But Adolf Hitler is still hale, for a man of 75; and in the U.S., President Joseph Kennedy, also 75, is planning a state visit to Berlin to quiet rumors of supposed Nazi human-rights violations against Jews during the war. His trip will make clear the solidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nazism Uber Alles | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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