New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

MARGARET AND ME The princess diaries – and my Kiwi connection!

“I feel so very, very sorry for the Queen,” says Lady Anne Glenconner, former lady in waiting to Princess Margaret.

She is chatting to the Weekly on the phone about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in particular their decision to renounce their positions as senior working royals.

“It is so very sad because everybody was thrilled when [Prince Harry and Meghan] got married,” adds Lady

Anne. “It was a wonderful wedding and then everybody was so pleased when they had their little boy Archie.

“It’s rather sad because they, well especially she, doesn’t seem to like being a royal. Maybe she imagined being a member of the royal family in rather a different way.”

For 34 years Lady Anne was Margaret’s lady in waiting so she knows only too well what being a royal entails.

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