Former lady-in-waiting Anne Glenconner reveals why Queen Mother refused to redecorate Royal Lodge

Lady Glenconner has candidly spoken about what it was like to stay with the Royal Family - and how the Queen Mother refused to redecorate one of their residences.Princess Margaret's former lady-in-waiting and closest confidante, 87, told how she and her late husband Colin would be invited to Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park - now the home of the Duke and Duchess of York - throughout the 1970s and 1980s.Speaking to The Sunday Times Home, she told how many of the rooms inside were 'rather tired' because the Queen Mother 'didn't want to change anything'.Lady Glenconner explained: 'It was where the family had lived before the abdication.  'Every evening we had drinks in the drawing room, where we'd often find [the Queen Mother] transfixed by Dad's Army.'Lady Glenconner also lived with Princess Margaret at Kensington Palace for a year in 1990, when she had 'no where to go' after her husband declared he had sold their London house. '[Princess Margaret] had a constant battle with Prince a ...

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