Una-Mary Parker

Una-Mary Parker (30 March 1930[1] – 11 April 2019) was an English journalist and novelist, who gave support to the Conservative Party. Her first novel, Riches, sold well internationally.

Family

Parker was the daughter of Hugh Power, a businessman, and Laura Nepean Gubbins. She was a cousin of the Duchess of Cornwall.[2] She married the photographer Archie Parker on 6 October 1951.[1][3] She had two children, Phillip Archibald Reginald Parker (Buffy) and Diana Una-Mary Parker (Baba). 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.[4]

Journalism and fiction

Parker was a supporter of the Conservative Party;[1] she worked as a journalist for the Daily Mail and Evening Standard. She also spent ten years as social editor of the British magazine, The Tatler.

Parker's first novel, Riches, appeared in October 1987 and has since been widely read internationally.[5] Her other novels include Scandals (1988), Temptations (1989), 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) and Rich Rewards.[6] And also Alexia's Secret (2008) and Veil of Secrets (1990).[7]

Later life

In 2016, Parker revealed that she was suffering from glaucoma.[8] She died in April 2019 at the age of 89.[9]


References
  1. Encyclopedia.com: Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  2. "Homes gossip". Homes and Property. 9 November 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  3. Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  4. 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 8 May 2019.
  5. Media, Why. "Una-Mary Parker". unamaryparker.com. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  6. Media, Why. "Una-Mary Parker". unamaryparker.com. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  7. "Una-Mary Parker". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  8. Parker, Una-Mary (16 January 2016). "Meet the dog that sniffed out her owner's illness". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  9. Una-Mary Parker, Tatler magazine's queen bee of the 1970s social scene and writer of bestselling "bodice-rippers" – obituary
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