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Life Lessons: Born in Kensington Palace
Anne Grainger, 92, royal by blood and birth, experienced divorce in her forties and this led to an encounter with Jesus, a voyage on a Mercy Ship and a new calling
I was born in Kensington Palace, July 1932. My mother, Princess May Cambridge, was a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She met my father, army colonel, Sir Henry Abel-Smith in South Africa when my grandfather, the Earl of Athlone, was governor general there.
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