Frances Osborne

Frances Osborne
Born
Frances Victoria Howell
NationalityBritish
EducationWindlesham House School
Marlborough College
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Spouse
(m. 1998; div. 2019)
Children2
Parents
Websitefrancesosborne.com

Frances Victoria Osborne (née Howell) (born 1969) is an English author. She has written two biographies and one novel.

Osborne's first biography, Lilla's Feast, tells the story of her great-grandmother's life and was published by Doubleday in September 2004. Her second biography, The Bolter, told the story of another of her great-grandmothers Idina Sackville, and became an international best-seller. Park Lane, her third book and first novel, published in June 2012, was named Bookseller's Choice by The Bookseller magazine.

She was the first wife of George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer.