![]() ![]() ![]() Our job, as Maids of Honour, would be to carry the Queen's 21ft purple velvet, ermine-trimmed train in the procession, walking directly behind her. His wife, the Duchess, stood in for the Queen at rehearsals. I hadn't met the other two - Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby and Moyra Hamilton - but there would be plenty of time to get to know them in the weeks of rehearsals, all orchestrated by the Duke of Norfolk, who had every minute detail worked out. There was Rosie Spencer-Churchill, who was engaged to my mother's first cousin Mary Baillie-Hamilton - whose parents were friends with mine - and Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, whose sister, Annabel, was my sister Carey's best friend. I knew some of the other Maids of Honour very well. In those days I had a 36in bosom, a 22in waist and 36in hips. We were also about the same height and we all had decent figures. ![]() Six of us had been chosen because we were all daughters of aristocrats: earls, dukes or marquesses. ![]()
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