**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . .
. very entertaining very funny' RICHARD & JUDY 'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a
deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in the entire book'DAILY MAIL 'Remarkable .
. . If your jaw doesn't drop at least three times every chapter you've not been paying proper
attention'THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Gentle wise unpretentious but above all inspiring'THE TIMES 'A
candid witty and stylish memoir'MIRANDA SEYMOUR FINANCIAL TIMES 'Stalwart and disarmingly
honest . . . emotion resonates through this delightful memoir'THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Discretion and honour emerge as the hallmarks of Glenconner's career as a royal servant
culminating in this book which manages to be both candid and kind'GUARDIAN 'A startling rare
beguiling insight into a lost world of royalty and celebrity with as many tears as there are
titles'DAILY EXPRESS 'I couldn't put it down. Funny and touching - like looking through a
keyhole at a lost world.'RUPERT EVERETT ~The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess
Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation. Anne Glenconner reveals the
real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama tragedy and courage with the
wonderful wit and extraordinary resilience which define her. Anne Glenconner has been close to
the Royal Family since childhood. Eldest child of the 5th Earl of Leicester she was as a
daughter described as 'the greatest disappointment' by her family as she was unable to
inherit. Her childhood home Holkham Hall is one of the grandest estates in England. Bordering
Sandringham the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were frequent playmates. From Maid of Honour
at the Queen's Coronation to Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret Lady Glenconner is a unique
witness to royal history as well as an extraordinary survivor of a generation of aristocratic
women trapped without inheritance and burdened with social expectations. She married the
charismatic but highly volatile Colin Tennant Lord Glenconner who became the owner of
Mustique. Together they turned the island into a paradise for the rich and famous including
Mick Jagger and David Bowie and it became a favourite retreat for Princess Margaret. But
beneath the glitz and glamour there has also lurked tragedy. On Lord Glenconner's death in 2010
he left his fortune to a former employee. And of their five children two grown-up sons died
while a third son had to be nursed back from a coma by Anne after having suffered a near fatal
accident. Anne Glenconner writes with extraordinary wit generosity and courage and she exposes
what life was like in her gilded cage revealing the role of her great friendship with Princess
Margaret and the freedom she can now finally enjoy in later life.
