Raine, Countess Spencer

Raine McCorquodale was born September 1929, the only daughter of the celebrated romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland[?] and her first husband, Alexander (Sachie) McCorquodale[?], an Army officer who was an heir to a printing fortune.

She married 1st, in 1947 (divorced 1976), Hon. Gerald Humphrey Legge[?], later 9th Earl of Dartmouth[?]. They had four children.

Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, married 2nd, at Caxton Hall, London, England, July 14, 1976, Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer[?]. Deeply unpopular with her stepchildren, who included Diana, Princess of Wales, she was ridiculed by them and other family members as "Acid Raine" and her time at Althrop[?], the Spencer family seat, dismissed as the "Raine of Terror." The earl died in 1992.

Raine, Countess Spencer, married 3rd, in 1993 (divorced 1995), Count Jean-François de Chambrun[?], a descendant of the marquis de La Fayette[?] and a member of a prominent French family related to the presidential Roosevelts. Also a grandson of a Cincinnati heiress, Margaret Rives Nichols, Marquise de Chambrun[?], he was previously married to Josalee Douglas[?], an American debutante, who was a first cousin of Princess Margaret intimate Sharman Douglas. Chambrun's courtship of Raine, Countess Spencer lasted 33 days before they married.