Charlotte Bingham(1942-2025)
- Writer
English romantic novelist and screenwriter, widow of writing partner Terence Brady. She was the daughter of crime novelist and former MI5 spy John Bingham (the 7th Baron Clanmorris), later revealed to have inspired John le Carré's famous character George Smiley. Her mother was the playwright, novelist and biographer Madeleine Mary Bingham (1912-1988). Charlotte Bingham's first published work to receive recognition was a humorous autobiography, Coronet Among the Weeds, written when she was just 19. It was launched in 1963 to almost universal critical acclaim and made the author an instant celebrity. Three years later, Bingham released her first novel, Lucinda. Coronets Among the Weeds was eventually adapted for television as the sitcom No, Honestly (1974). With her husband, Bingham collaborated on TV scripts for episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) and its sequel Thomas and Sarah (1979), Robin's Nest (1977) and Pig in the Middle (1980) (in which Brady also starred). In her own right, she penned more than forty novels, primarily romances with a period setting. In 1995, she was awarded the annual Romantic Novel of the Year Award for her work Change of Heart.
