He drove to Liverpool Airport in a bid to leave the country, but realising he did not have his Covid pass, he returned home and stepped over his mother's body to collect his laptop, before setting off again to Manchester Airport. Police went to the house in Higher Walton, Lancashire, to find the lifeless bodies of Anthony and Tricia upstairs - but their son was nowhere to be seen.Īfter stabbing his parents to death, Tipping washed the knife and placed it into his father's hand to make it look like he was the aggressor.

Meeting her fans, talking to those touched by her book - gay men, women who’ve lost children or had difficult husbands - has eased her abiding sense of always feeling ‘a terrible disappointment’ and given her a public profile.When Tricia didn't turn up for her regular Saturday lunch with her mum Cecilia and her sisters on Novemthe day after the stabbings - her family raised the alarm. Lady Glenconner is looking forward to going to literary festivals again. When I went on Lorraine, it sold 8,000 copies that day!’ ‘What I really love is selling my books - and the way you do that is by going on television. I loved selling the Holkham pottery.’ Aged 20, she hawked it around America, travelling by Greyhound bus. ‘Part of the reason has been so successful is because it’s my voice,’ she believes. She doesn’t own a computer - ‘If you want to get hold of me, it’s landline or postcard’ - so talks into a tape recorder. Lady Glenconner dictates her books - her first novel, Murder in Mustique, is out in paperback this week. ‘I haven’t seen her, but my sister Carey did and Polly had to have two of the rooms exorcised.’ The ghost in question is Lady Mary Coke, who refused to consummate her marriage to the son of the 1st Earl, in 1747, and was locked up. She used the time to work on her new novel, A Haunting at Holkham, a fictionalised account of her childhood during the war. ‘There, I was a mile from a completely empty beach and the park was empty, just as it was when I was a child.’ ‘I hardly dare say it,’ ventures Lady Glenconner, ‘but I’ve had a fantastic lockdown!’ She lives at the farmhouse she bought near Burnham Market, on her father’s advice, as a refuge from Colin. Life is blissfully peaceful now, but never dull. He educated me, he could be very funny.’ Colin died in 2010, leaving his fortune to his servant.

Lady Glenconner tried to leave, when Charlie was a baby: ‘But my mother said: “You go straight back.”’ They were married for 54 years. (She was enraged by Craig Brown’s 2017 savage, mischievous biography, Ma’am Darling.) The Margaret of Lady Glenconner’s memoir isn’t without certain ‘royal moments’, but her many kindnesses are emphasised.

It was chiefly to correct public opinion of Margaret that Lady Glenconner set about writing her book. In 1971, Princess Margaret asked her to become a lady in waiting, a position she held until the Princess’s death in 2002. She was a maid of honour at the Coronation in 1953, before marrying the colourful Colin Tennant (later Lord Glenconner), creator of Mustique. Here I am, next year I’ll be 90, and I’ve got this exciting, amazing life.’īorn Lady Anne Coke, eldest daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, she grew up at her beloved Holkham, where the Cokes were close to the Royal Family as a child, she played with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at nearby Sandringham and her father was equerry to George VI. ‘Sometimes, I feel like a child,’ she enthuses. It recently passed 100,000 sales in America, has been published in France and bought by Russia and Japan. Her memoir, Lady in Waiting, is a publishing phenomenon, selling nearly half a million copies in the UK alone and spending 37 weeks in the bestseller charts.

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