LONDON – Lady Glenconner’s antique diamond tiara, with its glittering starburst designs, fetched 127,400 pounds, more than double its estimate, at Bonhams London Jewels sale on Thursday night.

Anne Glenconner , the British aristocrat, author and former lady in waiting to Princess Margaret, had worn the tiara, which dates to around 1880, for state banquets, royal tours and for a portrait taken in 1983 with other maids of honor from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Glenconner famously spent more than three decades as lady in waiting — or hardworking personal assistant — for her childhood friend Princess Margaret . A mother of five, she also served as hostess in chief on the Caribbean island of Mustique, which her late husband Colin Tennant, 3 rd Baron Glenconner, purchased,

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