It was there that Anne was born and spent the idyllic years of her early childhood. One of his descendants, Thomas Coke, the first Earl of Leicester, commissioned the design and construction of the majestic Holkham Hall in north Norfolk, the fifth largest estate in England. The family’s founding father, Sir Edward Coke (pronounced “cook”), successfully prosecuted Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators and is remembered by history as the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era. So, get ready to learn more about how living in the shadow of the crown looks in real life and whether it is as fancy as you might have imagined it! Disinherited at birthĪnne Coke Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, was born on Jinto an ancient British family, their lineage spanning all the way back to the last days of the Tudors. Yes, she appeared in “The Crown” as well, played excellently by British actress Nancy Carroll and yes, “Lady in Waiting” is Glenconner’s tell-all memoir. The reason? For 30 years, Glenconner was Princess Margaret’s Lady in Waiting. When Helena Bonham Carter was cast to play Princess Margaret in season three of the exceptional Netflix TV show “The Crown,” one of the first things she did was visit 87-year-old Lady Anne Glenconner.
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