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Lady in Waiting

My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

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Lady in Waiting

Auteur(s): Anne Glenconner
Narrateur(s): Anne Glenconner
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 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.

Anne 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. 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. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact.

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. 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. Through it all, Anne has carried on, traveling the world with the royal family, including visiting the White House, and developing the Caribbean island of Mustique as a safe harbor for the rich and famous-hosting Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and many other politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities.

With unprecedented insight into the royal family, Lady in Waiting is a witty, candid, dramatic, at times heart-breaking personal story capturing life in a golden cage for a woman with no inheritance.

New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
The Sunday Times Bestseller
The Globe and Mail Bestseller
ABA Indie Bestseller
The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year
One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Europe Femmes Grande-Bretagne Politiciens Politique et militantisme Royauté Angleterre Spirituel

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Anne Glenconner's life story is a combination of royal magic, personal tragedy and resilient survival. With humor, courage, and preternatural poise, Anne Glenconner triumphed over all of it and at last tells the story of her uniquely fascinating life."
—Tina Brown
"Exceptional."—Andre Leon Talley
"A remarkable memoir--containing, at last, a genuine portrait of Princess Margaret from one who knew her well. But this book is poignant too, and through the pages shine [Anne's] courage and good-humored acceptance of her demons and tragedies."—Hugo Vickers
"A smart, dishy, and truly touching autobiography."—Town & Country
"Stalwart and disarmingly honest....Emotion resonates through this delightful memoir...candid, humorous."—The Wall Street Journal
"I couldn't put it down. Funny and touching - like looking through a keyhole at a lost world."—Rupert Everett
"Riveting...[Anne's] stiff upper lip never quivers."—Oprah Magazine
"This memoir of consorting with Princess Margaret and the royal family is remarkable."
—The Sunday Times (UK)
"A startling, rare, beguiling insight into a lost world of royalty and celebrity with as many tears as there are titles... Anne's story - a breath-taking array of top-drawer gossip--is told with an endearing modesty and with an extraordinary sense of surprise that all these things happened to her... The book is a diamond-mine of glittering asides."
—Daily Express
"Extraordinary."—Loose Women
"[An] upfront account of her life... [you'll] laugh out loud, exclaim in shock, and cry as [you] read it....An amazing read. There's so much humanity... as well as stories of glitz and glamour and royalty... it's a life fully lived."—"Nightlife" ABC radio (AU)
"Gentle, wise, unpretentious, but above all inspiring."—The Times (UK)
"A candid, witty and stylish memoir."—Miranda Seymour, Financial Times
"Astounding memoir."—India Knight
"Discretion and honor emerge as the hallmarks of Glenconner's career as a royal servant, culminating in this book which manages to be both candid and kind."—The Guardian
"It's a total hoot - I can't put it down."—Janet Street-Porter, Daily Mail
"A romp of an autobiography."—The Times (UK)
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Lady Glenconner does a fantastic job of reading her own story. What an incredible life. You certainly couldn’t make it up.

What a story!

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listening to Anne I felt as though I was sitting in a room with her as she unveiled her lifestory. Beautifully written and so heart warming. I highly recommend this book.

I loved every minute ❤

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I purchased this audiobook for my love of Princess Margaret but happily fell in love with Lady Anne's life and storytelling. Hearing it in her prim upper crust accent just makes it all the better 😁

what a wonderful listen!

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This wonderfully written book, narrated by Anne Glenconner, tells of her remarkable life story. I thought the book was going to be completely centred around Princess Margaret but instead it brings us on an amazing, sometimes heartbreaking, journey of the author’s life. Being narrated by her, made me feel like we were sitting over a cup of tea while she told the most interesting story. Very much worth the read!!

Wonderful Story of Life

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Lady Glennconner's story is both interesting, funny and sad all at the same time. I quite enjoyed her narration, glad that she decided to read her book herself.

Lovley memoire

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Not surprises of the royal behind the scenes gossip type, although there is some of that, but the story of an extraordinary woman. Anne has lived through 8 decades of changing times and faced circumstances that would have devastated most. You will be captivated by her story.

Surprises in every chapter

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Although I found the pace of speech slow, once I sped up the audio, I thoroughly enjoyed her storytelling. The author reminded me of my own grandmother’s storytelling in the manner she described the colourful characters and somewhat unexpected celebration of various cultures and customs around the world. She humanized the royals in the same stories that spoke of coping with mental illness, world travel, yachts, orgies & brothels. Through the good and the tragic, she maintained the humour, love, zest for living, beauty, and love of people and of the world.

A book best enjoyed in the author’s voice

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A wonderful and very very interesting book! It’s hard to imagine such an interesting but difficult life.

Lady in waiting

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She tells a story like mummy or nanny, but this lady's personal witness to some of the most vinile, vile and violent personal acts, her understanding of the heights of her privilege living the most marvelous life all the while gliding beside the history of our popular times since the 1950's.

Anne Glenconnor's LADY IN WAITING reveals the inside work, fear & grit of what often looks like a gilded life; aristocratics, especially the women, are like swans: All grace and beauty above water, below furious, perpetual, sometimes ugly motion.

But even the terrible descriptions of spousal abuse - which just pop up as they come and the way she negotiated with her husband's terrors - are told in a forthright, unromantic, yet with the perspective that while this wasn't what she would have chosen as side dishes, she did choose the main menu item, her mercurial, exciting, abusive, pounding, sadly relenting mad iconoclast Colin Tennant .

She makes it clear she was abused and knows it was wrong - but every story makes it clear that she had accepts the ugly and the bad because this is a big life, and for Lady Anne, that life has, measure to measure, been good.

David Löwenstein-Vallée, UE

Aristocratic Swan - Lady Anne, Proximity, History

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I enjoyed this book tremendously. What a life Anne has lived! She is a saint for staying married to Colin what a schmuck.

Very entertaining!

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