Oftentimes this feels like a list of happenings in her life without the smoothness and connection of a well-wrought memoir. She's breaking with the latter somewhat in writing this memoir and exposing her terrible marriage, her husband's incredibly bad behaviour, including tantrums and gross eccentricities that might have been manifestations of mental illness, and the almost unbelievable experiences of her long life. She was raised traditionally, within the aristocracy, to make an advantageous marriage and to keep a stiff upper lip no matter what. Lady Glenconner's service to Princess Margaret is certainly the hook, and interesting enough, but she has lived an extremely privileged life herself. While an interesting look into the world of spoiled, rich people behaving badly, and the tragedy filled life Lady Glenconner has lived, it was less engaging to read the memoir than it was to hear her anecdotes on tv. I even ordered it for my mom for Christmas from England ahead of its publication in the US. So when I saw Anne Glenconner, a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret, on Graham Norton's show and giggled at her stories, I knew I'd want to read her memoir. Obviously I've been interested in the royals for a long time now. My mother and sister and I all got up at some insane hour of the morning to watch the historic wedding with friends. I was 10 when Prince Charles and Lady Diana married.
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