Charlotte Bingham, who has died of cancer aged 83, enjoyed successful careers as both a novelist and a television scriptwriter. She wrote a bestselling autobiography, Coronet Among the Weeds, when she was just 20, about her life as a debutante, and followed it with dozens of romantic novels, as well as screen comedies and dramas co-written with her husband, Terence Brady.
One of the couple’s earliest successes – and their own creation – was the sitcom No, Honestly (1974-75), starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins as a couple from across the social divide, Charles Danby (“CD”), a jobbing actor, and Clara Burrell, a peer’s scatty daughter seeking to supplement her husband’s meagre income by dabbling with writing. It drew inspiration from their own lives – Brady acted as well as writing and Bingham came from an aristocratic family and used her skill with words to make a living.
