Barbara Cartland on Letterman, April 26, 1983

[@BroadwayBabyyy744]

They need to make a movie about this lady!! Hopefully someone from the streaming services sees this comment!!!!!!

[@orion8835]

They totally do.

[@ChrisDWXX]

I was just thinking the same! 👍😊

[@sitwellosbert]

The Step-Grandmother of Princess Diana, wonderful eccentric, great fun and very intelligent.

[@isabellajane8212]

I'm a Barbara Cartland fan and I tried to collect her books before. I love her books because I'm so interested in the British nobility, different places and the past era of the settings of her romance novels. I felt like I'm on a time travel and at least, through her books, traveled Europe as well.

[@MimiiIi-hl1pf]

I loved her,l love Reading all your Books she is Amazing 😋

[@Eevian666]

Astounded by there sheer amount of books she wrote...

[@j.c985]

723 and she sold a billion copies of them

[@HereForCommentsOnly]

Norman Hartnell's designs are... beautiful doesn't quite describe it. The pink dress is stunning 🤌🏾.

[@barbaracartlandmuseum8096]

So wonderful to see! Thanks for posting :)

[@alexsarria5063]

What a character. Love this woman

[@nintendy]

Babs was WONDERFUL! Could listen to her all night!

[@angeladallimore8079]

Beautiful Barbara .dressed in Norman Harnell looks lovely .love Reading all your books x ❤

[@melihjohn80]

I am fascinated by her.😀

[@jakecavendish3470]

Like a wedding cake left out in the rain

[@BlytheWorld1972]

This is what you call pure class .

[@karensnowden962]

Absolutely Well Said

[@peeg09]

What an amazing creature

[@The_torero]

She looks like the real life version of the fairy godmother from Cinderella.

[@deepaaruma3098]

We share the same thoughts 😂

[@lisawells-baker3208]

I loved Barbara cartland listening to her before reading her books, she was lady Diana's step grandmother, Barbara's daughter Raine married The Earl of spencer

[@bnkundwa]

She set the limits on what is acceptable in literature. Awareness is key.

[@melianna999]

Never read her book/ not my cup of tea/ but respect her energy to work that hard.

[@scotnick59]

She's 81 here.

[@behuilonge5336]

Yes i did read her novel's books...quiet beautiful

[@heldofhil7]

What an amazing gift!!!

[@kirsty6005]

creasing at his pronunciation of Hertfordshire

[@dianneschoenberg4681]

Thanks so much Don, this was fun! What a dress! I wonder if Harry came from that acorn??

[@BroadwayBabyyy744]

She was Princess Di's step grandmother...her daughter was Earl Spencer's Second Wife. Young Di always had freshly printed hot off the presses Novels every month.

[@ChrisDWXX]

Fascinating lady

[@ryanhartley5154]

what a character

[@Patrick3183]

Barbara loved queen Elizabeth I. So do I.

[@davidralphs4]

Stunning. She looks like what would be today an aging drag queen with class. A big stout woman who lived to a ripe old age of 98.

[@mangasky7]

Don, you the man!

[@sathyavanimaiya959]

Muah I love her novels🥰😇

[@infinityreaper4652]

i want a magical acorn

[@williamhardwick4257]

May I say as an Englishman, Barbara Cartland wasn’t then & isn’t now, an accurate representation of the average English person.

[@colinr0380]

Yes, she's not as flamboyant

[@PK-re3lu]

Lol...

[@lalagonegaga]

She was and is - and you know it.

[@modfus]

There is nothing average about Barbara Cartland.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

she's typical working class,,,

[@mariaivanoff7955]

I started reading Barbara cartlands books when I was 12 there was a lot of them around at the time and I lost interest in my mid twenties but years later I 've become interested again and can't find any I love watching her she's such a larger than life personality I like her dresses but I thought the capes that seem to be attached to the back of so many of her dresses spoilt the outfit, was she holding David Lettermans hand at one stage?

[@gailots]

Used bookstores are full of them as is EBay. Amazon now has HUNDREDS available in paperback or ebook (kindle). The new Pink Collection are NEW and found after her death and published. And unbelievably they are GREAT!!

[@Patrick3183]

The capes suggest a sort of Victorian Drama

[@dinakathy2141]

Novelis legendaris so classic more than until 2000she died

[@michaelremer7721]

What is a glider?!?!?!

[@AdaraBalabusta]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(aircraft)

[@Patrick3183]

Airplane without motor

[@orion8835]

Cartland was pure drag and highly theatrical to say the least. The most prolific authoress of ladies soft porn novels.

[@어휴..왜항상나만]

패리스 힐튼의 전신이네 ㅋ

[@davedavina5862]

Danny La Rue is fabulous

[@hatefullll]

I always thought it was rude of Diana to NOT ALLOW Ms.Cartland to come to the royal wedding. She's the one who said "no". Barbara Cartland's daughter, Raine, was Diana's step mother. For Diana's step grandmother to NOT be invited was terribly rude.

[@saeedseedat9344]

You are aware Princess Diana was only allowed to invite 100 gusts at her wedding. 2400 of the 2500 guests were invited by the Royal Family. Princess Diana concentrated on inviting her family the Spencer’s and her friends. At that time she was not close to her stepmother or her family!

[@hatefullll]

@@saeedseedat9344 oh come on it was her FATHER'S mother in law! Her grandmother in law! No matter if they were close or not. It was bad form not to invite her. I love Diana to BITS but I've always thought that was a bad call.

[@nintendy]

​@@hatefullll As much as I loved Diana - she did some pretty cruel and spiteful things to her Step Mother Raine;(Babs’ daughter) for instance, one Christmas I believe, she placed a small preset under the Christmas Tree for Raine, inside was a note or something that just said ‘nothing for you’ - or something similar I believe. I can’t quite remember the wording exactly, but I was quite shocked that she did this, considering how generous she was to the rest of the world... Despite this, Raine, incredibly, still always had time for Diana; when she had big problems in her later life - guess who it was Diana turned to for help and support when she had no-one? Her dear Step Mother Raine! So I think Raine must have been one heck of a lovely, generous and forgiving lady! We often hear of wicked Step Mothers - much less so wicked Step Daughters... I literally cried when I’d heard of what she did to Raine. It still haunts me to this day.

[@misspurrr-fect3684]

The Spencer children called their step-mother " Acid Raine"

[@FreeMarketSecularist]

😎

[@Trillock-hy1cf]

The caption writer is not very good with: Oh yes, I should be 1882 in July.....lol Translated: I shall be 82 in July....