Never again, we said. Yet here we are. Anne Glenconner’s latest book, Lady Glenconner’s Picnic Papers, is published by Bedford Square Publishers You Might Also Like The anti-ageing wonder ingredient ...

The chair was used by Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, the daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who had been one of the late Queen’s maids of honour. Not all of the lots will break the bank.

Born Lady Anne Coke, the eldest daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, she grew up at Holkham Hall. Only a boy would be able to inherit and she grew up knowing that Holkham would never be hers.

Born on July 16, 1932 as Anne Veronica Coke to The Hon. Thomas Coke and Lady Elizabeth, she spent her much of her childhood on the family estate, Holkham Hall, in Norfolk.

Lady Anne Glenconner speaks exclusively to HELLO! about spending the festive period with the late Queen and Princess Margaret at Sandringham and the Christmas display at Holkham Hall, near her ...

Queen Elizabeth's childhood friend Lady Anne Glenconner shared her opinion on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle amid their estrangement from the royal family after stepping down from their official ...

Lady Anne Glenconner – a close childhood friend of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret – has opened up on King Charles' childhood, revealing he was often kept away ...

Lady Anne, who was later a lady-in-waiting to Margaret from 1971 until she died in 2002, vividly recalls her earliest meetings with the princesses at her ancestral home, Holkham Hall.

Who is Lady Glenconner? Born Anne Tennant, Lady Glenconner was a maid of honour at the Queen’s coronation and grew up as friends with both Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.

Lady Anne Glenconner, Princess Margaret’s former lady-in-waiting and close friend, candidly opens up about domestic violence, royal coronations old and new, and palace intrigue.

Lady Anne was shrewder than Margaret in that respect; when she married Tennant her father advised her to buy a farmhouse on the grounds of Holkham Hall, the grand Palladian mansion where she grew ...