Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer

Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (née McCorquodale; 9 September 1929 – 21 October 2016) was a British socialite and local politician. She was the daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and the romantic novelist and socialite Barbara Cartland, and the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Quotes

• Alas, for our towns and cities. Monstrous carbuncles of concrete have erupted in gentle Georgian Squares.
  • The Spencers on Spas (1983), p. 14
  • Cf. Charles III (then Prince of Wales), Speech to Royal Institute of British Architects, 30 May 1984, in The Times (31 May 1984):

    Instead of designing an extension to the elegant fa‡ade of the National Gallery which complements it ... it looks as if we may be presented with a kind of vast municipal fire station. ... I would understand better this type of high-tech approach if you demolished the whole of Trafalgar Square and started again ... but what is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.