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'The Queen told us off for riding tricycles indoors'7 hours agoNeve Gordon-FarleighJonathan Birch/BBCLady Glenconner said it was a "privilege" spending her childhood at Holkham Hall in NorfolkOne of Princess Margaret's former ladies in waiting recalls being told off by a nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth II for riding a tricycle indoors at her Norfolk stately home. Lady Glenconner, who has known the Royal Family all her life, said it was a privilege growing up at Holkham Hall, which is her family's ancestral estate. Now aged 94, she remembers riding tricycles as a young child with the Queen's younger sister, Princess Margaret - and being chided by the future monarch. "We weren't meant to be there at all, going round and round, and down the steps of the Marble Hall came the Queen... she looked at us and she said 'Margaret, Anne, very very naughty, what are you doing'? " said Lady Glenconner. "Princess Margaret and I whirled round the hall one more time and we shot off on our tricycles screaming with laughter," she added.
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