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Book Review of Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
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I loved this book. Anne Glenconner tells her story with poignancy, truth, and honesty. I will say that the aristocracy partied in bizarre ways. I'm not sure what I was expecting--it wasn't what was in the memoir, but I loved it.

The book is not mainly about her days as a LIW--it's more a memoir of different parts of her life that melded with her role as a LIW. She was a LIW to Princess Margaret, not the Queen.

It's fun, not difficult to read, with a little sadness thrown in--because life is full of sadness.