Barbara Cartland

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (1901-2000) was a British author, one of the most prolific and commercially successful authors of the 20th Century. Her 723 novels were translated into 36 languages and reportedly sold between 750 million and 1 billion copies. She specialised in 18th Century and Victorian era pure romance. She was also a well known media personality.

Her younger brother was the British Conservative Party politician Ronald Cartland (1907-1940).

Barbara Cartland in The War That Came Early
During the 1920s, Barbara Cartland and her younger brother Ronald Cartland visited Egypt and saw the Pyramids.