article_snippet: Dame Barbara Cartland — then aged 90 — at one of Dame
article_snippet: Barbara Cartland — bizarre lunches to launch yet another romantic novel.
article_snippet: Dame Barbara Cartland — was busy rattling off a roster of men who had proposed to Dame Barbara Cartland — over the decades, when Dame Barbara Cartland — broke off and fixed a skinny guest with Dame Barbara Cartland — gimlet eye.
article_snippet: Then Dame Barbara Cartland — took to a chair to demonstrate, in a froth of princess-pink tulle from which Dame Barbara Cartland — elaborately painted face rose in triumph.
article_snippet: As Dame Barbara Cartland — got up again and started working the room, distributing souvenir gold-leaf acorns from Dame Barbara Cartland — garden and finishing the list of long-deceased suitors — the object of Dame Barbara Cartland — remarks, a skinny fellow journalist, scowled and fiddled with Dame Barbara Cartland — lettuce.