One of the overarching tensions in the first book was her remaining in her marriage despite the hideous behavior of her husband. “I received so many letters after I wrote the first book, asking me questions about this and that and wanting to know more about me and Princess Margaret, and I was so thrilled having never done anything like this before, that I just thought-well OK I’ll write another one,” she told The Daily Beast about her motivations for writing the second tome. She was exceptionally cool about this reporter accidentally calling an hour late because he had been at a lunch party: “Quite alright-I took the dogs for a walk.” Now, at 90, she is back with a new book, charmingly titled Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life. The first book was that rare thing, a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the more unlikely hits of 2019, proving irresistible and unputdownable reading for anyone with a passing interest in the British aristocracy or royals.

Why Princess Margaret’s Lady In Waiting ‘Didn’t Like’ Vanessa Kirby’s ‘The Crown’ Portrayal While the beating heart of the book was her relationship with her best friend Princess Margaret, to whom she acted as lady-in-waiting for many decades, there were also astonishing jewels, incredible art, a smashing series of country estates, and many stories about the Caribbean island of Mustique-which her husband Colin Tennant bought in 1958 for peanuts, transforming it into the most exclusive of royal and celebrity holiday destinations.īut Lady Anne’s life was also marked by equally unbelievable tragedy: a disgustingly abusive, cheating husband who cruelly disinherited her in his will, leaving his fortune to an assistant a son who of AIDS, another from Hepatitis C and a third who was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident that left him with severe long-term effects. Lady Anne Glenconner’s first book, Lady in Waiting, was an extraordinary chronicle of an extraordinary life. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Royalist is The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family.

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