It's not just her husband's macho hogwash that she put up with. Lady Anne Glenconner has been tolerating the British aristocracy's baloney since the day she was born and her gender determined she wouldn't be eligible to inherit Holkham, the fifth-largest estate in England. "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," she joked to The Guardian.
Grinning and bearing it came with its upsides: a life spent on and off a Caribbean island, 26 trips to India (via Tatler), an accent that The Guardian says resembles the queen's, and a close relationship to The Firm. In 1990 when her husband sold their London house leaving Lady Anne without a home, she bunked with Princess Margret at Kensington Palace for an entire year (via Tatler). Unlike other British aristocratic media personalities (for example those who go by the name of "Lady C"), Lady Anne really does know the royal family. The future king of England Prince Charles, Anne told The Guardian, is "a "proper friend" of hers who pops by often. As for Princess Anne, Glenconner remembers her fondly as "always such fun, she was always thinking such naughty things to do" (via Metro).
Yes, before you ask, she does have an opinion about Meghan Markle. "I think she thought she could drive around in a golden coach. But [being a working royal is] actually quite boring," Lady Glenconner told The Guardian.
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