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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.

As a young woman Prue Penn took a full part in London social life and, working at the Foreign Office, once made a home movie with Kim Philby

The Agricultural Price Index (API) is a set of indices of the prices paid and received by UK farmers for agricultural goods and services.