


In Lady in Waiting, she will share many intimate royal stories from her time as Princess Margaret's closest confidante as well as her own battle for survival: her broken-off first engagement on the basis of her "mad blood" her 54-year marriage to the volatile, unfaithful Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner, who left his fortune to a former servant the death in adulthood of two of her sons a third son she nursed back from a six-month coma following a horrific motorcycle accident.

A unique witness to landmark moments in royal history, Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret until her death in 2002, Anne's life has encompassed extraordinary drama and tragedy. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed "the greatest disappointment" and unable to inherit. As seen on Netflix's The Crown"-īook Synopsis Discover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner-a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.Īnne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. About the Book "An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Lady Anne Glenconner-a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.
