Twenty years ago, Marjorie Wallace’s report on the mentally ill shocked Britain to the core. Today, this tireless campaigner for the neglected and forgotten asks: why is our mental-health system still in such a state?

Award-winning journalist, courageous campaigner and Lord Snowdon’s former lover Marjorie Wallace reflects on a life lived in the fast lane.

When the National Portrait Gallery asked Marjorie Wallace to pose, she considered plastic surgery…

For four decades Marjorie Wallace has given a voice to the miserable and maimed. Leaf Arbuthnot hears of a career that began with being paid to take drugs.

Marjorie Wallace has devoted her life to fighting for better care for the mentally ill. Here, for the first time, she reviews her own battle with depression.

Marjorie Wallace has battled to keep her mental health charity running. Now its London helpline faces closure. Finally, she admits she has had enough of government shirking responsibility.

She moves easily between sad streets and social splendours, fighting the corner and raising money for mentally ill people. Robert Chesshyre watches a phenomenon in action.

Marjorie Wallace, campaigning journalist and director of Sane, and her son, Sacha Skarbek, musician.

Marjorie Wallace turned heads at star-studded parties with her auburn hair and sparkling wit.

Marjorie Wallace has a deadline to raise £1 million for mental illness, and is battling breast cancer.

Throughout her life Marjorie Wallace has fought for the rights of the sick. Now she herself is facing the ultimate battle for health. She talks to Pauline Peters.

To have done what I've done I’ve had to use a lot of Scottish grit. I've always had quite a sense of mischief, which has kept me going. My excellent staff at Sane quite often say: “Hang on, Marjorie, have you taken your seriousness pill?”

Geraldine Bedell on a campaigner whose determination makes governments change their minds.

When hugely wealthy business tycoon John Mills began dating the irrepressible Marjorie Wallace, Countess Skarbek, nine years ago his four grown-up children weren’t exactly cock-a-hoop.

At the age of 15, Marjorie Wallace wanted to be an opera singer. But when she was told she would never make it past the chorus, she abandoned that dream. And she has carried this all-or-nothing attitude with her ever since.

Mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace may have just won a Woman of the Year award, but she believes care is not much better than 30 years ago.

Marjorie Wallace CBE was a celebrated journalist involved in some of the greatest scoops in British journalism. It was never her intention to found the independent mental health charity, SANE. Rather, the charity founded her.

Originally an investigative journalist at The Sunday Times, Marjorie Wallace's life changed after her articles on mental health prompted a huge postbag of people desperate for help. She founded, and continues to run, the SANE mental-health charity; she is also an award-winning writer and broadcaster and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Social arbiter and people watcher Mary Killen analyses people's relationships with their cars. This month, charity-founder Marjorie Wallace test-drives an Audi Cabriolet convertible.

As founder and chief executive of mental health charity SANE, Marjorie Wallace has spent much of her life campaigning relentlessly for her cause. Nadia Raafat talks to the Highgate resident about her life and work.