Cassandra Caroline Mary Jardine (16 November 1954 – 29 May 2012) was a British journalist, best known as a contributor to The Daily Telegraph over a twenty-year period.

Born in London, the youngest of three daughters, her parents were Anne, a Conservative councillor in Kensington and Chelsea, and Christopher Jardine, a civil servant.

[1] In 1972, as the Under Secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry, although later "vindicated", her father was accused of "negligence" after a car insurance company collapsed.

[4] She returned to The Daily Telegraph on 29 March 1989[5] as a feature writer and interviewed several hundred public figures over the next two decades before latterly writing about health for the newspaper.

[1] Jardine was married to the actor William Chubb; the couple had five children, two sons and three daughters who were aged between 13 and 22 at the time she died.