The aristocrat british Raine, Countess Spencer, died at the age of 87 in London. Today the british press is defined as a woman energetic, witty and intelligent. She was also known for his conservative ideas, in the style of Margaret Thatcher. But perhaps their greatest achievement was to be one of the few friendships that had "Lady Di" when their marriage became a nightmare and the royal family gave him back.
Born in 1929, Raine was the only daughter of Alexander McCorquodale, an Army officer, and of the famous writer of romantic novels Barbara Cartland. A few years ago, the marriage fell apart, and the colorful Barbara married the cousin of her ex-husband, Hugh McCorquodale, to the disbelief of the entire family.
The eccentric writer raised her daughter to shine in high society: "She was trying to make me a perfect person but didn’t have very good material to work with," said Raine in an interview. "Horses, learn to swim, governesses… it Was a lost cause. My mother determined that I should be a girl sport and wanted to teach me to ride, but I was terrified". Cartland was sure that his daughter would get very far.
throughout his life, Raine collected titles of noble family, thanks to your thoughtful marriages that gave him a place in English high society. I was 18 years old when he came to the altar to marry Gerald Humphry Legge, thanks to whom he became the Countess of Dartmouth. In 1971 he met "Johnnie", Earl Spencer and father of Lady Di.
They had found him at a political meeting and took advantage of the absences of your husband to invite him to dinner alone in his apartment in London. Spencer, dejected by the failure of his marriage and turned to alcohol, was delighted with the attentions of Lady Dartmouth and began to turn to her for advice. the "it Was wonderful", reminded Raine. He was funny, sweet, caring (…) it was like a whirlwind, a force of nature". Such was the bitterness of the first husband of Raine, who employed a painter to clear it a family portrait and replaced by a tree.
The wedding took place in 1976, but none of the children of Spencer (Sarah, Jane, Diana and Charles) was present. In a private conversation, recorded in 1992 but revealed twenty years later, Diana ensured that he hated his stepmother for having "ruined" your childhood and attempt to impersonate his mother. In the same tape, recounted that, on the day of the wedding yelled to Raine: "you Always have hated. You blew it, our family life". After this confrontation, the count spent six months without addressing a word to his daughter. The future rebel princess gave her mother the nickname of "Acid Rain" ("Acid Rain") and years later would confess: "Raine had me fed up".
The relationship between Raine and the princess was improved to trickle down to become both great friends
Raine is installed at Althorp, the impressive family mansion of the Spencer on the field, next to the private home of queen Elizabeth II. The new countess was spent to remodel the house and protect the legacy of a family of great renown. But he also had to face the hostility of their new stepchildren. The children Spencer were horrified with the woman they considered an "intruder". "at The beginning I had a fatal," said Raine. "Sarah I had rabies. He hated to see me at the table and was giving orders to employees without asking for my counsel. During the early years, Jane not I was heading the word, even if we were to meet down the aisle".
The tension between the stepmother and the stepchildren worsened so much that, in 1978, the conde was on the point of dying of a cerebral hemorrhage because of the nerves. Raine, who cared tirelessly for her husband, said: "Although it would have saved ten times the lives of my husband, and although I would have spent all that I have, their children would think the same of me." Diana put a bad face when he was facing her and laughing behind their backs, roundly criticized the extravagance of their dress and their air of movie star.
Charles refused to talk to him while Diana had sent him letters and called "anonymous" to scare you. The brothers roamed the halls of the house reciting the song "Rain, rain, go away".
The relationship between Raine and the princess was improved to trickle down to become both great friends, as she told the countess in an interview in the magazine 'The Gentlewoman': “she Was a lovely person, ( … ) Suffered a lot of pressure, but we ended up being great friends. I used to sit on my couch and tell me all their problems. I am very happy for that.”
Their own romantic problems and the coldness of his mother made that Diana is closer to Raine. The princess said that she was grateful to have made happy to his father and have care of and accompanied until his death, in 1992.
The journalist Ingrid Seward, a friend of the countess, recounted: "When the earl Spencer is ill, she practically saved his life. He was at his side all the time and I think that Diana suddenly saw that this stepmother was not as bad as I had imagined. Later, at the end of the life of Diana, suddenly Raine Spencer was his best friend."
(*) Darío Silva D’andrea is the author of the books Orange, and Secrets to Courtiers.
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