But she was nervous about the wedding night. The wedding reception at the family house, Holkham Hall in Norfolk, was splendid Anne wore a Norman Hartnell dress, a vast improvement on her deb parachute. ‘Oh Anne, when we get married I won’t need to lose my temper,’ he had assured her during their engagement. We’ve got to know Anne’s husband Colin Tennant over the previous chapters and can all too easily imagine that irritation.
The sensitive reader of this fascinating and beautifully written memoir shudders not only at the emotional agony of that flight but also at those four words, ‘much to Colin’s irritation’. ‘Much to Colin’s irritation,’ she writes, ‘I couldn’t stop crying.’ She protests she wasn’t stiff-upper-lipped at one of the worst moments of her life, which was on a Concorde flight to Miami in 1986 to see her son Christopher, who lay in a coma in hospital after a motorcycle accident in his gap year. Suddenly she is being fêted as Lady Stiff Upper Lip, poster girl for the British non-self-pitying spirit and an example to us all - particularly to Prince Andrew and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Trained from a young age to be self-effacing, never liking to be the centre of attention, having been traumatised for life by being made to wear a bright green dress sewn from old parachute material at her own coming out dance in 1950, Anne Glenconner must be wincing at being thrust into the limelight by today’s columnists. Speaking on her reason for publishing the book, she said: "I was so fed up with people writing such horrible things about Princess Margaret.". In 2019, Lady Glenconner’s memoir was published by Hodder & Stoughton. She was Extra Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II's sister, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon from 1971 until the Princess died in 2002. Lady Glenconner served as a maid of honour at the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. Coke, MVO, GOC, 5th Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth Mary (Yorke) Tennant, Countess of Leicester. Speaking on her reason for publishing the book, she said: "I was so fed up with people writing such horrible things about Princess Margaret." Anne Veronica (Coke) Tennant, LVO, Baroness Glenconner is a daughter of Thomas W.E.
Anne Veronica (Coke) Tennant, LVO, Baroness Glenconner is a daughter of Thomas W.E.
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