


They coughed politely, but she achieved both, and then embarked on a whirlwind of book tours, lectures, interviews, and podcasts.

She told them that if she did produce a book she would want to sell at least 500,000 copies and appear on Graham Norton’s TV show. Perrin said she should write a book about it and sent her to meet the team at Hodder. She’d just read a biography of Princess Margaret which she thought was unfair, so she was talking about her own experiences as the Princess’s Lady in Waiting. It started at a lunch with friends in Norfolk where she met a publisher called Tom Perrin. Three years on from Lady in Waiting, it’s great to have another memoir from Lady Glenconner who, at 90, says she’s loving her new literary career.
