Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown Audiobook

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• “Lady Anne Glenconner’s life story is a combination of royal magic, personal tragedy, and resilient survival.”

  — Tina Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author

• “Royal obsessives and casual observers alike will devour this memoi.”

  — Newsweek

• “With her tales of partying with Mick Jagger on Mustique and attending Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, delivered. What I didn’t expect, however, was tearing up while I read them.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “A smart, dishy, and truly touching autobiography.”

  — Town and Country

• “Lady in Waiting is a total hoot—I can’t put it down.”

  — Daily Mail (London)

• “This memoir of consorting with Princess Margaret and the royal family is remarkable.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “Discretion and honor emerge as the hallmarks of Glenconner’s career as a royal servant, culminating in this book which manages to be both candid and kind.”

  — The Guardian (London)

• “Whether describing scenes of delicacy or debauchery, these insider accounts are fascinating. Glenconner is unfailingly perceptive, honest, and amazingly down-to-earth.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A remarkable memoir—containing, at last, a genuine portrait of Princess Margaret from one who knew her well. But this book is poignant too, and through the pages shine [Anne’s] courage and good-humored acceptance of her demons and tragedies.”

  — Hugo Vickers, author of Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

• This memoir of consorting with Princess Margaret and the royal family is remarkable.

  — The Sunday Times (UK)

• It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in the entire book.

  — Daily Mail

• A must-read book of the year.

  — Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

• A smart, dishy, and truly touching autobiography.

  — Town & Country

• Stalwart and disarmingly honest....Emotion resonates through this delightful memoir...candid, humorous.

  — The Wall Street Journal

• I couldn't put it down. Funny and touching - like looking through a keyhole at a lost world.

  — Rupert Everett

• Riveting...[Anne's] stiff upper lip never quivers.

  — Oprah Magazine

• Anne Glenconner's life story is a combination of royal magic, personal tragedy and resilient survival. With humor, courage, and preternatural poise, Anne Glenconner triumphed over all of it and at last tells the story of her uniquely fascinating life.

  — Tina Brown

• Exceptional.

  — Andre Leon Talley

• A remarkable memoir--containing, at last, a genuine portrait of Princess Margaret from one who knew her well. But this book is poignant too, and through the pages shine [Anne's] courage and good-humored acceptance of her demons and tragedies.

  — Hugo Vickers

• A startling, rare, beguiling insight into a lost world of royalty and celebrity with as many tears as there are titles... Anne's story - a breath-taking array of top-drawer gossip--is told with an endearing modesty and with an extraordinary sense of surprise that all these things happened to her... The book is a diamond-mine of glittering asides.

  — Daily Express

• Extraordinary.

  — Loose Women

• [An] upfront account of her life... [you'll] laugh out loud, exclaim in shock, and cry as [you] read it....An amazing read. There's so much humanity... as well as stories of glitz and glamour and royalty... it's a life fully lived.

  — "Nightlife" ABC radio (AU)

• Gentle, wise, unpretentious, but above all inspiring.

  — The Times (UK)

• A candid, witty and stylish memoir.

  — Miranda Seymour, Financial Times

• Astounding memoir.

  — India Knight

• Discretion and honor emerge as the hallmarks of Glenconner's career as a royal servant, culminating in this book which manages to be both candid and kind.

  — The Guardian

• It's a total hoot - I can't put it down.

  — Janet Street-Porter, Daily Mail

• A romp of an autobiography.

  — The Times (UK)

• Marvelous book . . . one's eyes were on stalks.

  — Jan Moir, Daily Mail

• Lady in Waiting...will make you laugh and cry and gasp....At the heart is loss, grief, stoicism, and love.

  — Airmail

• I hooted my way through Anne Glenconner's Lady in Waiting... Glenconner's memoir of three decades as Princess Margaret's chief courtier is matter of fact about her bonkers life, making it all the more amusing

  — Marcus Field, Evening Standard

• A record, funny and sometimes dazzling, of a way of life now almost disappeared.

  — Rachel Cooke, Observer

• Rollicking... a fascinating, anthropological portrait of the... privilege-soaked world of the British aristocracy... extraordinary anecdotes... Anne's book paints such a rich picture of the aristocracy it's impossible not to marvel at the institution, both in admiration and horror.

  — Sydney Morning Herald

• One of the most enjoyable books of 2019.

  — Alison Pearson, The Sunday Telegraph

• Royal obsessives and casual observers alike will devour this memoir by the confidante-a noble herself-of Princess Margaret. Glenconner candidly writes about the unimaginable tragedies she endured in her personal life, and of the gilded affairs she witnessed on the periphery of royal life.

  — Newsweek

• A page-turner, filled with humor and tragedy.

  — Carleton Varney, Palm Beach Daily News

• Meticulously detailed....[W]hat makes this account fresh and poignant is Glenconner's use of affluent characters to demonstrate the extent to which class trumps power....By unflinchingly examining everything from her troubled marriage and her fraught relationship with her children to the solace she found in service, the author emerges as a flawed yet steely woman worthy of respect. In laying her life bare, she demonstrates the limitations of being a woman in the British class system, showing that privilege is no insulation from suffering or pain. A must-have for loyal royal fans.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• In this genuine and candid work, Lady Anne recounts her story, offering some rare insight into the uniquely fascinating world of royal life.

  — BookRiot

• Whether describing scenes of delicacy or debauchery, these insider accounts are fascinating. Glenconner is unfailingly perceptive, honest, and amazingly down-to-earth, a survivor who embodies the British trait of "getting on with it."

  — Booklist (starred review)

• Lady Glenconner provides an open and honest look into the private lives of England's royal family and the most elite members of society. The author's sense of humor shines through in her writing, bringing levity to some of the difficult times that peppered her life.

  — Library Journal (starred review)