Status Updates From Lady in Waiting: My Extraor...

"It [Ranelaugh Gardens] was a very formal place to go because the nannies would sit on different park benches according to the titled of the family they were employed by - nannies working for Earls wouldn't dare sit on the bench full of nannies employed by dukes." Preposturous, and I'm beginning to see why the US broke away.

"...the White House was an excellent setting for the many extravagant parties we had." This is going to take some getting used to.

"In 1968 we finally moved into the White House..." made me raise an eyebrow until I got to the "in Tite Street" part of the name.

This is so lovely 🥰 I absolutely love stories about Princess Margaret!

Her description of waiting outside the bathroom in a hotel seemed strange to me, because en suite bathrooms became common in US hotels in 1908, with even earlier examples dating to the 1880s. Also, the idea of a hotel only heating the lounge sounds strange to me. British hotels must have been very different from US hotels back then.

"It transpired that the Nazis had indeed planned to take over [England's] country estates, although Hitler had his sights on Blenheim."