bethg331 's review for:

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner

5.0

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I devoured this one. I watched a documentary about Princess Margaret, current Queen Elizabeth's sister, and I found it fascinating. Her identity will always be the Queen's sister. What kind of identity is that? It made me think of Harry and what his life would always be. This was before he quit being a royal. This book is by one of Princess Margaret's childhood friends and she became one of her ladies in waiting. One of the interesting things is that Anne Glenconner was engaged to Princess Diana's dad but when she introduced him to someone, that someone thought he would be perfect for her daughter and he thought so too and called off the engagement. If they had married there would not have been a Princess Diana. Crazy how life works. Also, because Anne did not marry she was able to be a Maid of Honor for Queen Elizabeth's II coronation. Unfortunately the guy Anne did end up marrying was awful. Ladies when a man says he will change after you get married, he won't. There is a lot of mental illness in this book and it was sad that there wasn't much to be done back then unless you wanted to send the person away. Two side notes, the Chattanooga Choo Choo was mentioned and Anne got to hold a koala. Anne lived a life that some people could only dream of, but she also had a lot of tragedy. I cried at the end. And what happened at the end with her husband was shocking!

"People do what they think they need to do in order to protect themselves and their children."