Education
Strange was educated at Oxenfoord Castle boarding school near Edinburgh, at Street Andrews University (where she read English and history) and at Cambridge University.
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She also wrote romantic novels and historical works. Although the family home is the 17th century Megginch Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, the family title, Baron Strange, is in the English peerage. Her father, John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange, had spent many years attempting to terminate an abeyance that arose on the death of the Duke of Atholl in 1957.
He was confirmed in the title in 1965.
The title went into abeyance once again on his death in 1982, but it was terminated in Cherry"s favour in 1986, and she made her maiden speech on 4 March 1987. Following reforms which reduced the number of hereditary peers who were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, her 1999 manifesto to be elected to occupy one of the remaining seats (limited to 75 words) was "I bring flowers every week to this House from my castle in Perthshire." She was elected to fill a cross bench seat.
She was President of the War Widows Association of Great Britain from 1990.
Politics
She held traditional conservative views, but resigned the Conservative Party whip in December 1998 when William Hague dismissed Lord Cranborne for negotiating with Tony Blair on reform of the House of Lords.
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