Word: cartland
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DIED. DAME BARBARA CARTLAND, 98, best-selling romance novelist whose 723 books sold more than 1 billion copies worldwide; in Hertfordshire, England. Cartland published her first novel in 1925, was dubbed the queen of romance fiction and became beloved for creating virginal heroines in rococo plotlines. Her ability to write a novel a week, dictating to secretaries while reclining on a sofa, earned her a glamorous, bejeweled lifestyle, a host of pink gowns and a bit part in a real-life rococo drama: step-grandmother to Princess Diana...