LADY GLENCONNER remembers her right royal telling off for raising hell as a child at Holkham Hall in Norfolk. “The first time I saw [Princess Margaret] I knew she was fun. She was naughty, she had a great sense of humour,” the Baroness said in a jubilee conversation with Joanna Lumley and Gyles Brandreth yesterday at Hatchards, Piccadilly. “At Holkham we’ve got a huge marble hall we weren’t allowed to go into… naturally we did,” she said.
Storming down corridors on tricycles was far from the Queen’s idea of fun. “I remember we were whirling around, and suddenly the Queen appeared and said, ‘What are you doing? You’re very naughty’.” The Queen’s maid of honour at her coronation added: “We screamed with laughter and whizzed round another time.” Off with their heads.
