Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner
Anne Veronica Tennant, Dowager Baroness Glenconner, LVO (née Coke; born 16 July 1932) is a British peeress and socialite.Lady Glenconner was born Anne Veronica Coke (pronounced "Cook") in 1932 at 13 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.[4][1] She was engaged to Johnnie Althorp, later father to Diana, Princess of Wales; his father objected to the match on the grounds of "mad blood", a reference to her Trefusis ancestry which was shared by institutionalised relatives of the Queen, and the engagement was broken off; in 1997, the director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute[7] opined that a genetic disease in the Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis family (i.e. of Anne's paternal grandmother)[8] may have killed male members of the family in early childhood and caused learning disabilities in females.[4] When Lord Glenconner died in 2010, it was revealed that he had made a new will shortly before his death leaving all of his assets to an employee, Kent Adonai.The family contested this will, and after a legal battle that lasted several years the estate was divided between Adonai and Cody Charles Edward Tennant, the fourth Lord Glenconner.[4] Princess Margaret would visit Lady Glenconner at her Norfolk home, where she would sometimes help by laying the fire or washing the car.