![]() ![]() Lady Anne knew about cruel husbands - hers, Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner, won the prize. She was quite sharp when people were irritating. “They were brought up in a very grand way, and I think people forget that. “I wrote the book partly because I was so upset by all the things people wrote about her and they didn’t even know her!” she exclaims. Speaking on the phone from her home in Norfolk, Lady Anne tells The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age she “wanted to set the record straight” over Margaret. It is considered rude not to bring your own maid when you come to stay, but in one memorable scene, Margaret is described walking over to a woman (an unknown commoner) feeding the squirrels in Kensington Gardens, and jumping in to whack them with her umbrella. “She hated grey squirrels,” Lady Anne writes, “she had a vendetta against them.” Here, the rooms are walled with Turners and Hogarths, butlers attend at picnics, and the Queen Mother always out-drinks her guests. Princess Margaret and Lady Anne Glennconner, in a photograph from Lady Anne's memoir. ![]()
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