At 94 years old, Lady Glenconner remains one of Britain's most captivating royal confidantes. In this delightfully witty and deeply moving interview, she sits down to discuss her final memoir, Trunks and Tiaras, reflecting on nearly a century of high-society travel, private royal moments, and personal resilience.
As the former maid of honour who carried Queen Elizabeth II's coronation train and a guest at King Charles III's coronation, Lady Glenconner shares rare eyewitness memories of the monarchy in private. She recalls her decades as Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting—including why the Princess forbade her from drinking champagne, surviving exhausting transatlantic flights on 1960s Stratocruisers, and weekends at Royal Lodge with the Queen Mother.
She also speaks with characteristic honesty about devastating personal heartbreaks: losing two sons during the AIDS epidemic and to addiction, nursing her youngest son through a five-month coma, surviving a volatile marriage, her broken engagement to Princess Diana's father, and why she flatly dismisses Earl Spencer's controversial claims about King Charles.
