Aristocratic blood doesn’t come much bluer than Anne Glenconner’s. She was born Lady Anne Veronica Coke, eldest child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, her family established in Tudor times, and raised at Holkham Hall. This massive stately pile in the county of Norfolk is the fifth largest estate in England and just 10 miles from Sandringham, the royal family’s private home. Anne’s father was Equerry to the Duke of York – later King George VI – and her mother a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II. [Yes, archaic though it sounds, this is still a royal court title which these days denotes a high-ranking lady-in-waiting.]
As a young girl, Anne’s playmates were Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and as a teenager Prince Charles became “like a younger brother”, sharing happy afternoons mucking around on the local beach. From those childhood days in Norfolk, Anne forged an unbreakable bond with the Windsors which went on to shape her life.
Now 87, she’s ready to reflect on incredible times gone by in a revealing and sporadically shocking autobiography, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of The Crown. The book is courageous, candid, very personal and, she admits, something of a love letter to her friend Princess Margaret, who she believes has been unfairly maligned since her death, depicted as haughty and difficult in the media and TV dramas including Netflix hit The Crown.
“I think I have redressed some of the very trashy things that have been said about her by people who don’t know her,” Anne says. “I wanted to because I really loved her. She was so much a part of my life, and having also lived with her at Kensington Palace for a whole year, I got to know her really very well.”
Esta historia es de la edición December 2019 de Australian Women’s Weekly NZ.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor ? Conectar
Esta historia es de la edición December 2019 de Australian Women’s Weekly NZ.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor? Conectar
PRETTY WOMAN
Dial up the joy with a mood-boosting self-care session done in the privacy of your own home. It’s a blissful way to banish the winter blues.
Hitting a nerve
Regulating the vagus nerve with its links to depression, anxiety, arthritis and diabetes could aid physical and mental wellbeing.
The unseen Rovals
Candid, behind the scenes and neverbefore-seen images of the royal family have been released for a new exhibition.
Great read
In novels and life - there's power in the words left unsaid.
Winter dinner winners
Looking for some thrifty inspiration for weeknight dinners? Try our tasty line-up of budget-concious recipes that are bound to please everyone at the table.
Winter baking with apples and pears
Celebrate the season of apples and pears with these sweet bakes that will keep the cold weather blues away.
The wines and lines mums
Once only associated with glamorous A-listers, cocaine is now prevalent with the soccer-mum set - as likely to be imbibed at a school fundraiser as a nightclub. The Weekly looks inside this illegal, addictive, rising trend.
Former ballerina'sBATTLE with BODY IMAGE
Auckland author Sacha Jones reveals how dancing led her to develop an eating disorder and why she's now on a mission to educate other women.
MEET RUSSIA'S BRAVEST WOMEN
When Alexei Navalny died in a brutal Arctic prison, Vladimir Putin thought he had triumphed over his most formidable opponent. Until three courageous women - Alexei's mother, wife and daughter - took up his fight for freedom.
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO START
Responsible for keeping the likes of Jane Fonda and Jamie Lee Curtis in shape, Malin Svensson is on a mission to motivate those in midlife to move more.