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Fitness was the sole aim. I’m no snowflake, probably a battle-axe. Meghan's friends entitled to 'super-charged confidentiality', high court told | Meghan, Duchess of Sussex | The Guardian But Glenconner knows what I’m up to: “You’re edging closer to asking me about Meghan Markle,” she tuts.

It’s why I don’t care if the Sussexes are occasionally naive, compromised or entitled or if they end up flogging royal wedding tea towels on Sussex Royal. I think it’s a bit much.”)Coverage of Glenconner’s book has focused on the royals, but it’s the descriptions of her own life that gripped me. All rights reserved. The rest of the breathless promises (you will be beautiful/popular/fashionable. She manages to laugh at things others might find less amusing: the patriarchal aristocratic system that meant she couldn’t inherit her family home (“I tried awfully hard to be a boy, even weighing 11lb at birth, but I was a girl and there was nothing to be done about it”); her husband taking her to a “perfectly disgusting” live sex show during their honeymoon; even her son Henry’s funeral when he died from Aids – “I couldn’t help a tiny smile because, as is Buddhist custom, his coffin was covered with pineapples and other tropical fruit, so it looked like a giant fruit salad as it came into the crematorium.”“It’s no fun for anyone if you’re sitting around being a misery. I certainly didn’t think the Guardian would be interested in my book. Kate Middleton "snaps her fingers and Kensington Palace comes running" - that's what Meghan Markle has allegedly told friends of royal reactions to a tell-all article about the Duchess of Cambridge. “Somebody said: ‘Do you get writer’s block?’ I said: ‘No, writer’s diarrhoea!’ I just talked and talked,” she says. But she was so funny, that’s what people don’t get,” she says. This is the one subject she won’t be drawn on: “I’ll tell you absolutely nothing at all, except that he made my life possible. He was in a coma and a doctor told Glenconner that she should forget about him. Well, this is tricky, because, while I wouldn’t accuse the vast majority of Britons of being racist, many of us detected Everything else aside, it seems to me that sectors of the press had a choice to behave absolutely impeccably on the racial front and they (not Meghan) chose not to.

She takes me to the pretty sitting room, where we sit on either side of the fire. Anne!’ ‘Yes, ma’am, what is it?’ ‘I think the kettle’s broken!’ Of course, she hadn’t turned it on. Lockdown appears to have opened people’s eyes to the fact that gyms are all about fitness and the rather tedious effort it takes to achieve it. Glenconner’s distinctive voice has a no-nonsense briskness to it, undercut with a wry but warm sense of humour. Looking back to school - PE was just PE. In her book, Glenconner describes her current home as “a cottage” but these things are relative: compared to the nearby Holkham Hall where she grew up, and Glen, the enormous estate in Scotland belonging to her late husband’s family, I guess it is a cottage. Meghan Markling when going out. They were, she says, real friends, even if one called the other “Ma’am” and the other didn’t. But she did want to help …” Prince Charles, another “proper friend”, stops by often: “And people are really fond of him now, you know. Glenconner loved being a mother, but, despite not having been entirely happy with aspects of her childhood – absent parents, nannies, boarding school – she repeated it with her own children, leaving them behind as she helped her husband in Mustique. A photo of Glenconner holding Charlie and Henry as babies is so bittersweet I can hardly look at it. You will Are you a born wuss? Henry married and had a son, but in the late 80s he came out as gay and within 18 months he had Aids, at a time when the diagnosis turned you into a pariah. Now it seems that there might be a solid evolutionary reason for their suffering.Not that many people seem to have been affected, certainly not as many as are now probably reading this and thinking: “Oh my God, that’s me, with the Neanderthal low pain threshold genetic mutation thingie… It explains so much.

The celebrities revelled in the privacy from the media: on one holiday, Glenconner delicately pointed out to Princess Margaret that her bathing suit was transparent. I’d been warned beforehand not to ask about Meghan Markle so I ask instead if, having spent so much time with Margaret, she has extra empathy for … I n the period when the acquisition of the former Meghan Markle was depicted as little short of a national triumph, much was written in the British press about her … But it’s actually quite boring. Put on your shorts and get on with it.Now here we are again. All that talking to plants and his green things, it’s all come true. “I’m glad you asked me about the children, it was kind of you,” she says. He turned Mustique from unpromising scrubland into a celebrity pleasure island, where Mick Jagger would lead singalongs in a beach bar. Her family crest is an ostrich swallowing a horseshoe, signifying the family’s ability to digest anything.Glenconner’s family has a long relationship with the royal family: her paternal grandmother was Edward VIII’s mistress and her father was equerry to George VI.

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