As King Charles prepares another ratings-busting TV Christmas speech, he has reason to be grateful to one particular organisation for helping create the time-honoured tradition, now in its 91st year.
Lady Penn, who has died aged 97, was a close friend of the late Queen and Princess Margaret, and a former lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother; she was the widow of Sir Eric Penn, one time Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, and thus lived at the very heart of Palace life for more than 70 years.
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Thanks to psychics and Hollywood actors, she’s never wanted for work – and she’ll be a real vision in Netflix’s ‘prestige’ drama, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde