6 FEBRUARY 1993, Page 23

Sir: Auberon Waugh repeats the myth that Dame Barbara Cartland

is the Princess of Wales's step-grandmother. For the Princess to be so honoured one of her grandfathers would have had to have married the Dame. How fortunate for them and for their descendants that neither did so.

M.J. Wake-Walker

50A Prince of Wales Mansions, Prince of Wales Drive, London SW11