Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life

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Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life

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Woman, 42, recalls horrifying moment she discovered her boyfriend was cheating on her - SECONDS before he got down on one knee to PROPOSE This makes the upper class sound like a cosy tight-knit clan, but one of the chief revelations of Lady in Waiting is just how cruel and wasteful the aristocratic system has historically been to women. Because of the cast-iron rule of male primogeniture, Lady Anne and Princess Margaret were obliged to spend their entire lives as left-overs “waiting” for someone to decide what to do with them. When Anne Coke was born in 1932 as the first child of a man who would become the fifth Earl of Leicester she was a “big disappointment”, who “broke the line” by being a girl, the first of three sisters. As a result of her wrongness the magnificent Holkham Hall and the earldom passed on her father’s death to her male second cousin. Margaret too was hexed by her gender: if the clever, headstrong girl had been born a boy she would have leapfrogged our present Queen to succeed their father in 1952. Instead of useful, purposeful public lives, the mischievous best friends found themselves entirely surplus to requirements. Suranne Jones turns heads in a dazzling suit as she joins co-star Rose Leslie at the BBC's Vigil season two screening in London Past Lives comes up victorious at Gotham Awards 2023 for Best Feature ... while Charles Melton and Lily Gladstone claim night's biggest acting honors Who won Great British Bake Off? Matty triumphs as he beats off competition from fellow finalists Dan and Josh to win 2023 series

And in fact this is an extremely autobiographical novel as the main character is Lady Anne Coke – daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester (i.e. the author) and starts in 1950 where with the Holkham estate struggling with post-war austerity she has taken a role as a travelling saleswoman selling the estate’s pottery (again as did the author). Apart from this, she could see the Queen, a woman, succeeding her father, as she had no brothers. Unless there was a special remainder, girls could not succeed in the aristocracy.

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Mead, Rebecca (6 February 2023). "Oldest Living Aristocratic Widow Tells All". The New Yorker. Vol.99, no.1. p.23. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 6 February 2023. Sue Radford gives first look at the family's lavish Christmas decorations after weeks of illness and admits: 'I've never felt so poorly' Jacqueline Jossa 'strikes groundbreaking deal with EastEnders as she cashes in on major contracts' after reprising her role Ed Sheeran brutally calls out friend Lewis Capaldi to get in the ring for a boxing fight and warns 'I'll have you' Rebel Wilson shares a touching family photo from the set of her new film The Deb: 'Three generations of Wilsons'

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