Education
Cassandra Jardine was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Cassandra Jardine was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge.
In 1972, as the Under Secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry, although later "vindicated", he was accused of "negligence" after a car insurance company collapsed. After Jardine graduated from Cambridge University in 1976, she became an assistant to the Daily Telegraph contributor T.E. Utley and later spent a period working for Cosmopolitan, Unilever"s internal publication and Business magazine. She returned to the Daily Telegraph on 29 March 1989 as a feature writer and interviewed several hundred public figures over the years before latterly writing about health for the newspaper.
She was diagnosed with lung cancer in July 2010, specifically adenocarcinoma.
The Daily Telegraph has founded the annual Cassandra Jardine Prize for young women journalists in her honour.