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'''Marjorie Shiona Wallace, Countess Skarbek''' ] ] (born 10 January 1943) is a British writer, broadcaster, investigative journalist, and chief executive of ], a mental health charity that she founded in the UK in 1986.<ref name="VictoriaLambert">{{Cite journal | title =Marjorie Wallace: 'All hell broke loose – I took a lot of flak for what I did' | journal = ] |author=Victoria Lambert| date =10 July 2014 | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10957929/Marjorie-Wallace-All-hell-broke-loose-I-took-a-lot-of-flak-for-what-I-did.html}}</ref> '''Marjorie Shiona Wallace''', Countess Scarbek, ] ] (born January 1943) is a British investigative journalist, author, and broadcaster. She is also the Founder and Chief Executive of mental health charity ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Marrin|first=Minette|title=The woman who wouldn't take no for an answer|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-woman-who-wouldnt-take-no-for-an-answer-pg93sm0xqrs|access-date=2021-11-08|issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace: 'All hell broke loose – I took a lot of flak for what I did’|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10957929/Marjorie-Wallace-All-hell-broke-loose-I-took-a-lot-of-flak-for-what-I-did.html|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-02-05|title=This much I know: Marjorie Wallace|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/05/marjorie-wallace-sane-mental-health|access-date=2021-11-08|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Shiona WALLACE personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/6HV4VNdsTA2Ck3UYRmR3PrFaC2o/appointments|access-date=2021-11-08|website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace CBE {{!}} SANE, mental illness charity|url=http://www.sane.org.uk/what_we_do/about_sane/marjorie_wallace|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sane.org.uk}}</ref>


==Early life and career== == Early life and education ==
Wallace was born in ], ], where her father was a ] mapping the railways. Her mother was a classical pianist.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Marjorie Wallace|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ltb4g|access-date=2021-11-08|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}</ref>
Wallace was born in ], ], where her father was a ] surveying for the railway. Her mother was a trained ], but was unable to pursue her interest professionally.<ref name=discs>{{cite web|author=|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ltb4g |title=BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Marjorie Wallace |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=1 November 2015 |accessdate=6 November 2015}}</ref> After gaining a degree in ] and ] from ], Wallace worked as a trainee producer for ]'s ''The Frost Programme'' with ] (1966–68). She went on to become a religious programmes producer and a current affairs reporter for ] (1969–72). While an investigative journalist and social services correspondent for '']'' (1972–89), she wrote a series of articles in 1972 highlighting the financial and emotional plight of the ] children who had been born in the 1950s and 1960s with physical disabilities. As a result of this campaign, she met ], about whom she co-authored a biography, '']'' (1976). This was made into a 1979 ] ''Play of the Week'' in which Wallace was portrayed by ].


After studying music, Wallace graduated with a degree in Psychology and Philosophy from ].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=2007-12-29|title=CBE for chief executive of Sane|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7163458.stm|access-date=2021-11-08}}</ref>
Her other investigations as a ''Sunday Times'' journalist ranged from the failure of concrete systems building and the 'hot-housing' of genius children to the ] disaster in ], about which she co-wrote the book ''The Superpoison'' (1979).


==SANE== == Career ==
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Wallace founded the mental health charity ] after writing a series of articles in '']'' entitled "The Forgotten Illness" that highlighted the paucity of services and treatments for people suffering from ]. Initially focusing on schizophrenia, SANE is now concerned with all mental illnesses.


=== Journalism ===
SANE raises money for people with mental health problems. It established ] in Oxford and pioneered the UK's first national out-of-hours mental health helpline, offering practical information and emotional support 365 days a year.
Wallace is the author of the 1986 book ''The Silent Twins'', about ],<ref>{{Cite journal | title =The Silent Twins | journal = NPR | date = May 8, 2015 | url = https://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/405191622/the-silent-twins }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine | title = We Two Made One | magazine = ]|author=Hilton Als|author-link=Hilton Als| date = 4 December 2000 | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/12/04/we-two-made-one }}</ref> and she wrote the screenplay for the film of the same name. She also wrote and presented the television documentaries ''Whose Mind is it Anyway?'' and ''Circles of Madness'', and has lectured on the subject of mental illness.


==Honours and awards== ==== Early career ====
After graduating, Wallace worked as a trainee producer for ''The Frost Programme'' with ]. She then became a religious programmes producer and a current affairs reporter for ].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace, MBE - In conversation with Rosalind Ramsay|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/219366050DA3C4875DDE6439A5FF273E/S0955603600076248a.pdf/marjorie_wallace_mbe.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
While a journalist for '']'', Wallace was awarded ''Campaigning Journalist of the Year'' for 1988.<ref>{{Cite journal | title =Bottom line | journal = ] | date = Mar 15, 2005 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/mar/16/mentalhealth.guardiansocietysupplement }}</ref> She has also been awarded ''Medical Journalist of the Year'' and received a British Neuroscience Association award in 2002.{{Citation needed|date=February 2015}}


She later joined the ] as a reporter and film director for news and current affairs programme ''],'' including covering stories about homeless people and making the first film inside an ] training camp.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=November 2003|first=19|title=NEWSMAKER: Voice of the forgotten - Marjorie Wallace, Chief executive, Sane|url=https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/newsmaker-voice-forgotten-marjorie-wallace-chief-executive-sane/article/623031?utm_source=website&utm_medium=social|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.thirdsector.co.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-07|title=Honour for mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace|url=https://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/honour_for_mental_health_campaigner_marjorie_wallace_583794|access-date=2021-11-08|website=PMLive|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
As a result of her "The Forgotten Illness" articles and her subsequent work in the mental illness field, she was elected an honorary Fellow of the ] in 2001.{{Citation needed|date=February 2015}} Wallace was appointed ] (MBE) in 1994, and an honorary ] by ] in 2001. Since 2004, she has been a Fellow of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/governance-and-committees/committees/hdfc/honorary-graduates-fellows/#d|title=Honorary Degrees and Honorary Fellowships|website=ucl.ac.uk|accessdate=11 April 2017}}</ref>


==== The Sunday Times ====
In 2006, she was selected as one of the 16 key achievers who had made a difference to the health of the nation for an exhibition at the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace (Countess Skarbek)|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw122005/Marjorie-Wallace-Countess-Skarbeck?LinkID=mp86200&role=sit&rNo=0|publisher=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref> and, two years later, was chosen as one of the 60 most influential people in shaping the history of the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Healthcare Communications Advocate|date=3 July 2014|url=http://www.pmlive.com/awards/communique/communique_results_2014/individual,_team_and_company_awards/healthcare_communications_advocate|publisher=PMLive|accessdate=19 July 2014}}</ref>
In 1972, ], then editor of '']'', recruited Wallace into the Insight Team of the newspaper to work on the ]. She was tasked with tracking down as many of the cases where children had been born with deformities caused by the drug.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|date=2020-09-26|title=How Harry Evans took up the long fight for thalidomide families|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/26/how-harry-evans-took-up-the-long-fight-for-thalidomide-families|access-date=2021-11-08|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Butcher|first=James|date=2007-07-14|title=Marjorie Wallace: campaigning for people with mental illness|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61073-3/abstract|journal=The Lancet|language=English|volume=370|issue=9582|pages=127|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61073-3|issn=0140-6736|pmid=17630024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Arbuthnot|first=Leaf|title=Today, kids, we’re off to Broadmoor|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/today-kids-were-off-to-broadmoor-7k8pt556b|access-date=2021-11-08|issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref name=":3" />


She interviewed over 140 families who affected by thalidomide, publishing weekly stories in the newspaper. <ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=Kellner|first=Peter|title=Prospect - The immense journalistic courage of Harry Evans|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/sunday-times-harry-evans-thalidomide-obituary|url-status=live}}</ref> One of the cases was ], a child born with severe physical disabilities who had been adopted by Hazel and Len Wiles. The article is credited with helping to persuade ], the company that distributed and marketed the drugs, to offer compensation to victims of the scandal.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book|last=Wallace|first=Marjorie|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4593907|title=On giant's shoulders : the story of Terry Wiles|date=1976|publisher=Times Books|others=Michael Robson|isbn=0-7230-0146-4|location=London|oclc=4593907}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-26|title=How Harry Evans took up the long fight for thalidomide families|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/26/how-harry-evans-took-up-the-long-fight-for-thalidomide-families|access-date=2021-11-08|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7" />
{{quote|"She stands firmly and consciously in the tradition of 19th-century social reformers like Charles Dickens. For almost all her adult life she has been an outstanding campaigning journalist, and her greatest campaign of all has been on behalf of the most unloved and unwanted people – the mentally ill." - Minette Marrin, journalist at ''The Sunday Times'', writing about Wallace}}


Wallace later turned Wiles’ story into a book and screenplay, ''On Giant’s Shoulders''. The screenplay was turned into a BBC film starring ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8d747b02e85544fcbcd77d058cae4f1c|access-date=2021-11-08|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> The film won an ] in 1980 and was also nominated for a ].<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Newland|first=Paul|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9BZCLVHpA-gC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=hazel+wiles+terry&source=bl&ots=BlMWjTvBqv&sig=cJlCUkLl88IUGS1YvVNbiIMcqlk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SwGVT_OFFKqs0QXdy9HwAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=hazel%20wiles%20terry&f=false|title=Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s|date=2010|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-320-2|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6" />
She was appointed ] (CBE) in the ].


''The Sunday Times'' expose of thalidomide led to victims being awarded over £28 million compensation.<ref name=":5" />
Wallace was named as Outstanding Campaigner at the 2016 Women of the Year Awards, reflecting her campaigning on behalf of mentally ill people and their families in the UK over the past 30 years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace named Outstanding Campaigner at the 2016 Women of the Year Awards |url=http://www.sane.org.uk/resources/news/show_news/788|publisher=SANE|date=14 November 2016}}</ref>


In 1976, Wallace reported on the ] in ], Northern ], which led to the publication of ''The Superpoison.''<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|last=Margerison|first=Tom|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7703908|title=The superpoison 1976-1978|date=1981|publisher=Macmillan|others=Marjorie Wallace, Dalbert Hallenstein|isbn=0-333-22797-2|location=London|oclc=7703908}}</ref>
{{quote|"She has fearlessly fought for a better life for people who suffer with mental illnesses and their families, and has changed the health of the nation as a result. We are delighted to recognise such a successful and impassioned campaigner." - Jane Luca, Chair of Women of the Year}}


In 1986, Wallace wrote a series of campaigning articles in '']'' on ] and other severe mental illness. The articles were published under the title ''The Forgotten Illness''. They focused on misconceptions about mental illness, the anguish and neglect of sufferers and families, and the failures of the community care policy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McGennis|first=Aidan|date=1989-09|title=The Forgotten Illness By Marjorie Wallace. Times Newspapers 1987. Available from SANE. (Schizophrenia: A National Emergency), 6th Floor, 120 Regent Street, London W1A 5EE. Stg.£1.00.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/irish-journal-of-psychological-medicine/article/abs/forgotten-illness-by-marjorie-wallace-times-newspapers-1987-available-from-sane-schizophrenia-a-national-emergency-6th-floor-120-regent-street-london-w1a-5ee-stg100/694B9BA1B4AFD99455835D21719FF29C|journal=Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine|language=en|volume=6|issue=2|pages=154–154|doi=10.1017/S0790966700015561|issn=0790-9667}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Blake|first=By Imogen|date=2014-08-08|title=‘I have taken on too much darkness’: SANE founder Marjorie Wallace reveals impact of lifetime’s work in mental health|url=https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/i-have-taken-on-too-much-darkness-sane-founder-marjorie-3474042|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Hampstead Highgate Express|language=en-UK}}</ref> The response to the articles was the largest ''The Times'' had ever received on a home news subject.<ref name=":6" />
⚫ ==Personal life==
Wallace was married to psychoanalyst Count ], with whom she had three children: ], ] and Justin. The couple later separated, although they did not divorce. Subsequently, she lived with the science writer and broadcaster ] and their daughter, Sophia, in ], North London. Margerison died in February 2014.<ref>Caroline Richmond, , ''The Guardian'', 2 March 2014.</ref> She married ] in 2021.


=== SANE & mental health ===
In November 2015 Wallace was the guest for ]'s '']''. Her favourite piece, chosen in dedication to her mother, was ]'s ]. Her other choices included "Ah! Dite alla giovine" from '']'' by ], "Sunrise in Your Eyes" by ] and "Repentir" by ].<ref name=discs/>
In 1986, as a result of the scale of the public response to ''The Forgotten Illness'' articles, Marjorie Wallace founded SANE. The charity initially focused on the most severe mental illnesses, but it later expanded its remit to all mental health.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=About Us {{!}} SANE|url=http://www.sane.org.uk/what_we_do/about_sane/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sane.org.uk}}</ref>


Following the launch of the charity, Wallace recruited support for SANE from key figures in medicine, science, business, industry and the media, including ] as its first patron.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" /> Minette Marrin in ''The Sunday Times'' wrote of Wallace: “She stands firmly and consciously in the tradition of 19th-century social reformers like ].”<ref name=":0" />
==Publications==

* 1976: ''On Giant's Shoulders: The Story of Terry Wiles'', Marjorie Wallace and Michael Robson, London: Times Books, {{ISBN|0-7230-0146-4}}
In 1992, Wallace founded SANEline, the UK’s first national specialist out-of-hours mental health helpline, offering information and emotional support to individuals, families, carers, professionals, and the public.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Guardian|date=2005-03-16|title=Interview: Marjorie Wallace, founder of mental health charity Sane|url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/mar/16/mentalhealth.guardiansocietysupplement|access-date=2021-11-08|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
* 1979: ''Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide'', Marjorie Wallace, Phillip Knightley, Harold Evans, Elaine Potter, London: Viking Press, {{ISBN|0-7088-1708-4}}

* 1979: ''The Superpoison'', Marjorie Wallace, Tom Margerison and Dalbert Hallenstein, London: Macmillan, {{ISBN|0-3332-2797-2}}
In 1994, Wallace also raised over £6 million to build a new research centre, ] for SANE Research, with donations from Xylas family, ] and ].<ref name=":3" /> The Centre promotes and hosts multi-disciplinary teams researching and investigating the causes of psychosis. It was opened by Prince Charles in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prince of Wales International Centre for SANE Research, Tim Crow|url=http://www.sane.org.uk/what_we_do/research/powic|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sane.org.uk}}</ref>
* 1986: ''The Silent Twins'', New York: Prentice-Hall, {{ISBN|0-345-34802-8}}

=== The Silent Twins ===
In 1982, Wallace met ]. The pair of identical twins had made a pact of silence to only speak with each other and no one else.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nast|first=Condé|date=2000-11-27|title=The Identical Twin Sisters Who Retreated Into Their Own World|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/12/04/we-two-made-one|access-date=2021-11-08|website=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}</ref> The twins were admitted to ] following a string of offences, including vandalism and arson. They remained at Broadmoor for 11 years, where Wallace earned their trust and publicised their cause.<ref name=":10">{{Cite news|title=The Silent Twins|language=en|work=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/405191622/the-silent-twins?t=1634137506594|access-date=2021-11-08}}</ref>

In 1986, Wallace published ''The Silent Twins''. The book bought the twins to international attention, with ] writing that it was “a remarkable and tragic study in its depth, penetration and detail.” The screenplay was turned into a ] by ].<ref>{{Cite magazine|author=Hilton Als|author-link=Hilton Als|date=4 December 2000|title=We Two Made One|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/12/04/we-two-made-one|magazine=]}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite book|last=Wallace|first=Marjorie|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60262552|title=The silent twins.|date=1996|publisher=Vintage|isbn=0-09-958641-X|location=London|oclc=60262552}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace - The Silent Twins|url=http://www.sane.org.uk/marjorie-wallace-silent-twins/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sane.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cdb0079565784ec8a6430e8a9a2936fc|access-date=2021-11-08|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

The story was also turned into numerous plays, documentaries, and two operas.<ref name=":10" /> Another film version of The Silent Twins is set to be released in early 2022, featuring ] and Tamara Wilson.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wiseman|first=Andreas|last2=Wiseman|first2=Andreas|date=2021-04-08|title=Focus Features Acquires ‘Silent Twins’ With Letitia Wright & Tamara Lawrance|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/letitia-wright-tamara-lawrance-silent-twins-focus-features-1234730240/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref>

⚫ == Personal life ==
In 1974, Wallace married psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Count ], with whom she had three children: ], ] and Justin. The couple later separated but did not divorce.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Youle|first=By Emma|date=2011-11-25|title=Tributes to Polish count and distinguished psychoanalyst who has died|url=https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/tributes-to-polish-count-and-distinguished-psychoanalyst-who-has-died-3425482|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Hampstead Highgate Express|language=en-UK}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web|date=2008-06-13|title=Charity founder honoured as Lord Snowdon affair is exposed|url=https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/charity-founder-honoured-as-lord-snowdon-affair-is-exposed-7649660|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Hampstead Highgate Express|language=en-UK}}</ref>

Wallace was later the partner of Dr ], founder of ] magazine and co-founder of London Weekend Television. Wallace and Margerison had one daughter together: Sophia. Margerison died in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-03-02|title=Tom Margerison obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/02/tom-margerison|access-date=2021-11-08|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>

For over 40 years, Wallace was a close friend and confidante of ], Earl of Snowdon. The couple campaigned together, writing articles for the Sunday Times about disadvantaged and disabled people and were later romantically involved.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lord Snowdon's mistress Marjorie Wallace reveals five-year affair|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2077071/Lord-Snowdons-mistress-Marjorie-Wallace-reveals-five-year-affair.html|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref><ref name=":12" />

In May 2021, Wallace married businessman, entrepreneur, and economist ].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Langlois|first=André|date=2021-05-31|title=Masquerade ball for Highgate wedding|url=https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/marjorie-wallace-john-mills-wedding-8015870|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Hampstead Highgate Express|language=en-UK}}</ref>

== Recognition ==

* 1982. Campaigning Journalist of the Year.<ref name=":14" />
*1986. Campaigning Journalist of the Year.<ref name=":14">{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Guardian|date=2005-03-16|title=Interview: Marjorie Wallace, founder of mental health charity Sane|url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/mar/16/mentalhealth.guardiansocietysupplement|access-date=2021-11-08|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
* 1988. The Snowdon Special Award.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-11-02|title=The Big Interview: Marjorie Wallace, Founder of SANE - Part Two|url=https://happiful.com/the-big-interview-marjorie-wallace-founder-of-sane-part-two/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Happiful Magazine|language=en}}</ref>
* 1989. Appointed Guardian Fellow at ], ].<ref name=":3" />
* 1994. ].<ref name=":13">{{Cite web|title=The Queen's high praise for pastor|url=https://www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/news/1941582.the-queens-high-praise-for-pastor/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Tottenham Independent|language=en}}</ref>
* 1997. Honorary Fellow of the ].<ref name=":1" />
* 2002. ] Award.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace|url=http://www.terrywiles.20m.com/custom.html|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.terrywiles.20m.com}}</ref>
* 2004. Appointed Fellow of University College London.<ref name=":1" />
* 2006. Recognised as one of the 16 key achievers who had made a difference in the health sector by the ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace (Countess Skarbek) - National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw122005/Marjorie-Wallace-Countess-Skarbek|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.npg.org.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A Picture of Health: Portraits by Julia Fullerton-Batten - National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2006/a-picture-of-health.php|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.npg.org.uk}}</ref>
* 2008. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).<ref name=":13" />
* 2016. Outstanding Campaigner at the Women of the Year Awards for “advocating and raising greater awareness of mental health”.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Behrmann|first=Anna|date=2016-10-17|title=Highgate charity campaigner honoured with ‘Woman of the Year’ award|url=https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/highgate-charity-campaigner-honoured-with-woman-of-the-year-award-3535504|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Hampstead Highgate Express|language=en-UK}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Toone|first=Lindsay|title=Marjorie Wallace CBE - Women of the Year|url=https://www.womenoftheyear.co.uk/team/marjorie-wallace-cbe/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=https://www.womenoftheyear.co.uk/|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Marjorie Wallace named Outstanding Campaigner at the 2016 Women of the Year Awards|url=http://www.sane.org.uk/resources/news/show_news/788|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sane.org.uk}}</ref>
* 2019. Appointed an Honorary Member of ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=SANE chief executive awarded honorary membership of the World Psychiatric Association|url=http://www.sane.org.uk/News/show_news/833|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sane.org.uk}}</ref>

== Selected filmography ==

* 1990. ''Whose Mind Is It Anyway?'' BBC One.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3c6573d6e3664d51919417e3d753e559|access-date=2021-11-08|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
* 1995. ''Circles of Madness.'' BBC.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Circles of Madness (1995)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e46e9b4|access-date=2021-11-08|website=BFI|language=en}}</ref>
* 1997. ''In the Psychiatrist’s Chair.'' BBC Radio 4.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - In the Psychiatrist's Chair, Marjorie Wallace|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007519z|access-date=2021-11-08|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 2014. ''Inheritance Tracks.'' BBC Radio 4.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 - Inheritance Tracks, Marjorie Wallace|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sd67k|access-date=2021-11-08|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 2015. ''Desert Island Discs.'' BBC Radio 4.<ref name=":2" />

== Selected bibliography ==
* 1976. ''On Giant’s Shoulders: The Story of Terry Wiles''. Times Books.<ref name=":8" />
*1978. ''Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide''. Viking Press.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4211068|title=Suffer the children : the story of thalidomide|date=1979|publisher=Viking Press|others=Sunday Times of London|isbn=0-670-68114-8|location=New York|oclc=4211068}}</ref>
*1979. ''The Superpoison''. Macmillan.<ref name=":9" />
*1986. ''The Silent Twins''. Penguin.<ref name=":11" />


==References== ==References==

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Marjorie WallaceCBE FRCPsych
Marjorie Wallace
BornMarjorie Shiona Wallace
(1943-01-10) 10 January 1943 (age 82)
Nairobi, British Kenya
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity College London
OccupationSANE Chief Executive
Spouse(s)Andrzej Skarbek
John Mills
Partner(s)Tom Margerison
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Websitewww.sane.org.uk

Marjorie Shiona Wallace, Countess Scarbek, CBE FRCPsych (born January 1943) is a British investigative journalist, author, and broadcaster. She is also the Founder and Chief Executive of mental health charity SANE.

Early life and education

Wallace was born in Nairobi, British Kenya, where her father was a civil engineer mapping the railways. Her mother was a classical pianist.

After studying music, Wallace graduated with a degree in Psychology and Philosophy from University College London.

Career

Journalism

Early career

After graduating, Wallace worked as a trainee producer for The Frost Programme with David Frost. She then became a religious programmes producer and a current affairs reporter for London Weekend Television.

She later joined the BBC as a reporter and film director for news and current affairs programme Nationwide, including covering stories about homeless people and making the first film inside an IRA training camp.

The Sunday Times

In 1972, Sir Harold Evans, then editor of The Sunday Times, recruited Wallace into the Insight Team of the newspaper to work on the thalidomide scandal. She was tasked with tracking down as many of the cases where children had been born with deformities caused by the drug.

She interviewed over 140 families who affected by thalidomide, publishing weekly stories in the newspaper. One of the cases was Terry Wiles, a child born with severe physical disabilities who had been adopted by Hazel and Len Wiles. The article is credited with helping to persuade Distillers, the company that distributed and marketed the drugs, to offer compensation to victims of the scandal.

Wallace later turned Wiles’ story into a book and screenplay, On Giant’s Shoulders. The screenplay was turned into a BBC film starring Dame Judi Dench. The film won an International Emmy Award in 1980 and was also nominated for a BAFTA.

The Sunday Times expose of thalidomide led to victims being awarded over £28 million compensation.

In 1976, Wallace reported on the Dioxin disaster in Seveso, Northern Italy, which led to the publication of The Superpoison.

In 1986, Wallace wrote a series of campaigning articles in The Times on schizophrenia and other severe mental illness. The articles were published under the title The Forgotten Illness. They focused on misconceptions about mental illness, the anguish and neglect of sufferers and families, and the failures of the community care policy. The response to the articles was the largest The Times had ever received on a home news subject.

SANE & mental health

In 1986, as a result of the scale of the public response to The Forgotten Illness articles, Marjorie Wallace founded SANE. The charity initially focused on the most severe mental illnesses, but it later expanded its remit to all mental health.

Following the launch of the charity, Wallace recruited support for SANE from key figures in medicine, science, business, industry and the media, including Prince Charles as its first patron. Minette Marrin in The Sunday Times wrote of Wallace: “She stands firmly and consciously in the tradition of 19th-century social reformers like Charles Dickens.”

In 1992, Wallace founded SANEline, the UK’s first national specialist out-of-hours mental health helpline, offering information and emotional support to individuals, families, carers, professionals, and the public.

In 1994, Wallace also raised over £6 million to build a new research centre, The Prince of Wales International Centre for SANE Research, with donations from Xylas family, Prince Turki Al Faizal and The Sultan of Brunei. The Centre promotes and hosts multi-disciplinary teams researching and investigating the causes of psychosis. It was opened by Prince Charles in 2003.

The Silent Twins

In 1982, Wallace met June and Jennifer Gibbons. The pair of identical twins had made a pact of silence to only speak with each other and no one else. The twins were admitted to Broadmoor Hospital following a string of offences, including vandalism and arson. They remained at Broadmoor for 11 years, where Wallace earned their trust and publicised their cause.

In 1986, Wallace published The Silent Twins. The book bought the twins to international attention, with Oliver Sacks writing that it was “a remarkable and tragic study in its depth, penetration and detail.” The screenplay was turned into a film by Jon Amiel.

The story was also turned into numerous plays, documentaries, and two operas. Another film version of The Silent Twins is set to be released in early 2022, featuring Letitia Wright and Tamara Wilson.

Personal life

In 1974, Wallace married psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Count Andrzej Skarbek, with whom she had three children: Sacha, Stefan and Justin. The couple later separated but did not divorce.

Wallace was later the partner of Dr Tom Margerison, founder of The New Scientist magazine and co-founder of London Weekend Television. Wallace and Margerison had one daughter together: Sophia. Margerison died in 2014.

For over 40 years, Wallace was a close friend and confidante of Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon. The couple campaigned together, writing articles for the Sunday Times about disadvantaged and disabled people and were later romantically involved.

In May 2021, Wallace married businessman, entrepreneur, and economist John Mills.

Recognition

Selected filmography

  • 1990. Whose Mind Is It Anyway? BBC One.
  • 1995. Circles of Madness. BBC.
  • 1997. In the Psychiatrist’s Chair. BBC Radio 4.
  • 2014. Inheritance Tracks. BBC Radio 4.
  • 2015. Desert Island Discs. BBC Radio 4.

Selected bibliography

  • 1976. On Giant’s Shoulders: The Story of Terry Wiles. Times Books.
  • 1978. Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide. Viking Press.
  • 1979. The Superpoison. Macmillan.
  • 1986. The Silent Twins. Penguin.

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