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- Lady Glenconner had two younger sisters, Carey (1934–2018) and Sarah (born 1944).
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Lady Glenconner had two younger sisters, Carey (1934–2018) and Sarah (born 1944). Their father was equerry to George VI [3] from 1932 to 1952. Lady Glenconner was primarily raised at her family's estate, Holkham Hall in Norfolk. [1]
Feb 6, 2023 · In 2019, Lady Anne—Anne Glenconner, as she is known today—published a memoir, “Lady in Waiting,” that detailed not only her childhood at Holkham Hall but also her decades as a friend and ...
Jul 16, 2024 · Royalty, rock stars and marital mayhem: Lady Anne Glenconner has seen it all – and tells even more to David Jenkins
Dec 9, 2019 · As lady in waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades, and having spent her early childhood playing with both the young princess and her sister, now Queen Elizabeth II, at her family home on the Holkham estate, her life has been an extraordinary one.
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Glenconner was lady in waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades until her death in 2002. She published her debut memoir in part to set the record straight about her friend, who she feels was often vilified in the media. “I was so upset and cross with all the horrible books written by people who didn’t even know her. I wanted to set the record...
Glenconner is sympathetic to the pressures facing the royal family, having served Princess Margaret for three decades. However, she sees a stark contrast between how the Duke of Sussex and his great-aunt approached their difficulties with the scrutiny. She said: “When people ask me about (Harry), the only thing I’ll say is that Princess Margaret wa...
As well as her insights about the royal family, what also shines through – and has inspired many of her readers – in Glenconner’s memoirs is her resilience, particularly in what she endured during her marriage, which she details in her follow-up memoir, Whatever Next? Lessons From An Unexpected Life. “I lived with domestic violence and abuse for mo...
When Glenconner oversaw the finishing touches to her first memoir, Lady In Waiting: My Extraordinary Life In The Shadow Of The Crown, published in 2019, she didn’t expect to become a best-selling author in her late 80s. Her debut work has since sold more than one million copies and been translated into 18 languages. Glenconner’s candid retelling of...
Sitting in Westminster Abbey for the coronation of King Charles this month, Glenconner could not help but cast her mind back 70 years to the day she witnessed the crowing of her friend, Queen Elizabeth II. As the daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, Thomas Coke, Glenconner grew up with the princesses near Sandringham and was one of Queen Elizabet...
After a life in the shadow of others, Glenconner is relishing her turn in the spotlight. “All my life I have been invisible,” said Glenconner, who is 91 in July. “I was a great disappointment to my father and grandfather for not being born a boy as I was the eldest. “With Colin and Princess Margaret, I was always making things all right for them. I...
May 13, 2021 · Lady Glenconner, née Anne Coke Tennant, wasn't just Queen Elizabeth's bridesmaid. She spent 30 years as Princess Margaret 's lady-in-waiting and a lifetime as her BFF (via The Guardian).
Mar 24, 2020 · From right, Glenconner, her sister Sarah, her sister Carey and her mother in 1962. via Anne Glenconner. And so this up-and-down life proceeded.
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