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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
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Author:
Anne Glenconner
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Date:
March 24, 2020
The author chronicles her personal and professional life as lady-in-waiting and confidante to her childhood friend Princess Margaret, as well as her turbulent marriage and a motherhood marred by tragedy.
What The Reviewers Say
Being very common, I have something of a mania for aristo-lit: a passion for stories about big houses and the wanton eccentrics who inhabit them.
... a candid, witty and stylish memoir. It is as richly spiced with malice—I doubt if Bianca Jagger will relish the put-down of her own princessy ways, or Jerry Hall the spiky comments on her lack of social grace—as it is darkened by the tragedies that befell the author’s three sons, two of whom predeceased her. But the glory of this book—a banquet of imperious egos—derives from her reports from the front on life with Princess Margaret and life with, and quite often, without, her own late husband.
...fascinating and beautifully written.
Given [Glenconnor's] proximity to the royals, I went into Lady In Waiting expecting juicy stories about Princess Margaret that would rival The Crown's revelations—and Lady Glenconner, with her tales of partying with Mick Jagger on Mustique and attending Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, delivered. What I didn't expect, however, was tearing up while I read them.
