![]() ![]() Finding herself invited on to Graham Norton’s red sofa at the BBC, she asked her friend and Mustique mucker Rupert Everett to help her prep: She likes the selling part, the promotion. Success, she says, ‘has come as a most marvellous surprise’. ‘I took my courage from Princess Margaret, who was a great believer that one didn’t dwell’ ![]() And now, coinciding with her 90th birthday, as well as (no flies on her) the new season of The Crown, Christmas etc, she publishes this volume of ‘life lessons’ – a catch-all, really, for any other top toff reflections from this most likeable of survivors. She hasn’t stopped since.įirst came an internationally best-selling memoir, Lady in Waiting, then two pacy novels. It was his biography Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret that so enraged her that, in an effort to stick up for her friend, whom she served as a lady-in-waiting for 30 years, Lady Glenconner started writing in her mid-eighties. Craig Brown is responsible for the astonishing late flowering of Anne Glenconner. ![]()
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