Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner

Anne Veronica Tennant, Dowager Baroness Glenconner LVO (née Coke; born 16 July 1932) is a British peeress and socialite. The daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, Lady Glenconner served as a maid of honour at the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, and was extra lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II's sister, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, from 1971 until the Princess died in 2002. Her 2019 memoir, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, was a New York Times Best Seller.

The Right Honourable

The Dowager Lady Glenconner

LVO
BornAnne Veronica Coke
(1932-07-16) 16 July 1932
London, England
Spouse(s)
(m. 1956; died 2010)
Issue
  • Hon. Charles Tennant
  • Hon. Henry Tennant
  • Hon. Christopher Tennant
  • Hon. May Creasy
  • Hon. Amy Tennant
Parents
  • Thomas Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester
  • Lady Elizabeth Yorke
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