Una-Mary Parker

Una-Mary Parker
Born(1930-03-30)30 March 1930
Died11 April 2019(2019-04-11) (aged 89)
OccupationAuthor
SpouseArchie Parker
Children2
RelativesDuchess of Cornwall (cousin)
Major-General Gubbins (uncle)

Una-Mary Parker (née McVean-Gubbins; 30 March 1930[1] – 11 April 2019) was an English journalist and novelist.

Family

Parker was the daughter of Hugh Power McVean-Gubbins, a businessman, and his wife, Laura. She was a cousin of the Duchess of Cornwall.[2] She married photographer Archie Parker on 6 October 1951 with whom she had two children.[1] She and her husband, a royal photographer, were a high society couple of the 1960s and 1970s, and regularly made headlines with their couture clothes.[3]

Journalism and fiction

In addition to working as a journalist for the Daily Mail and Evening Standard, she also spent ten years as social editor of the British magazine, The Tatler.[4]

Parker's first novel, Riches, appeared in October 1987 and has since been widely read internationally. Her novels include Scandals (1988), Temptations (1989), Veil of Secrets (1990), Enticements (1990),The Palace Affair (1992), Forbidden Feelings (1993), Only the Best (1993), A Guilty Pleasure (1994), False Promises (1995), Taking Control (1996), A Dangerous Desire (1997), Dark Passions (1998), Secrets of the Night (1998), Broken Trust (1999), Sweet Vengeance (2000), Moment of Madness (2001), Alexia's Secret (2008) [5][6]

Later life

In 2016, Parker revealed that she was suffering from glaucoma.[7] She died on 11 April 2019, aged 89.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Profile, encyclopedia.com; retrieved 17 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Homes gossip". Homes and Property. 9 November 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  3. ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (21 April 2019). "Una-Mary Parker, Tatler magazine's queen bee of the 1970s social scene and writer of bestselling 'bodice-rippers' – obituary". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Una-Mary Parker". The Irish Independent. 28 April 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Una-Mary Parker". unamaryparker.com. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Una-Mary Parker". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  7. ^ Parker, Una-Mary (16 January 2016). "Meet the dog that sniffed out her owner's illness". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  8. ^ Una-Mary Parker, Tatler magazine's queen bee of the 1970s social scene and writer of bestselling "bodice-rippers" – obituary

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