Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

MEMUARY FREYLINY BRITANSKOGO KOROLEVSKOGO DVORA — CHTO OSTALOS‘ ZA KADROM SERIALA NETFLIX «KORONA». Bestseller New York Times, USA Today i The Sunday Times. Memuary goda po versii The Times. Blagodarya svoim znatnym roditelyam ledi Enn Glenkonner c detstva druzhila s budushchey korolevoy Elizavetoy II i ee sestroy, princessoy Margaret. No kak doch‘ ne mogla nasledovat‘ famil‘noe imenie svoego otca — odnogo iz krupneyshih zemlevladel‘cev Anglii. Poetomu Enn ponadobilis‘ vsya ee stoykost‘, sharm i chuvstvo yumora, chtoby zarekomendovat‘ sebya pri korolevskom dvore. Vsyu svoyu dolguyu zhizn‘ ona nahodilas‘ vblizi monarshey sem‘i: prisutstvovala na koronacii Elizavety II i byla freylinoy princessy Margaret vplot‘ do ee smerti v 2002 godu. Druzhba i obyazannosti pri dvore omrachalis‘ lichnymi tragediyami: neudachnyy brak so vzbalmoshnym baronom Glenkonnerom, ostavivshim vse sostoyanie sluge, smert‘ dvuh synovey i koma tret‘ego syna. Nesmotrya na eto, Enn prodolzhala soprovozhdat‘ korolevskuyu sem‘yu po vsemu miru i razvivat‘ karibskiy ostrov Myustik, stavshiy lyubimym pristanishchem znamenitostey po vsemu miru — aristokratov, finansovyh vorotil i zvezd shou-biznesa. «Freylina» — eto otkrovennaya i trogatel‘naya istoriya zhizni v zolotoy kletke, prolivayushchaya svet na tayny korolevskogo dvora. «I poklonniki korolevskoy sem‘i, i sluchaynye chitateli v ravnoy stepeni ocharuyutsya memuarami freyliny princessy Margaret. Glenkonner otkrovenno pishet o nevoobrazimyh tragediyah, kotorye ona perezhila v svoey lichnoy zhizni, i o triumfah, svidetel‘nicey kotoryh ona stala, nahodyas‘ na periferii korolevskoy zhizni». — Newsweek «Besstrashno raskryvaya pered chitatelem svoyu slozhnuyu zhizn‘, Glenkonner demonstriruet ogranichennost‘ zhenshchiny v britanskoy klassovoy sisteme, pokazyvaya, chto privilegii — ne panaceya ot boli i stradaniy. Obyazatel‘noe chtenie dlya poklonnikov korolevskoy sem‘i». — Kirkus Review