When Princess Margaret’s friend Colin Tennant, 3rd Lord Glenconner, bequeathed everything he owned in the West Indies to his steward and caretaker, Kent Adonai, his family was stunned.
A court battle followed and the family eventually reached a settlement with Adonai, a local fisherman, who saw Colin’s St Lucia home, Beau House, and half the land go to his grandson and heir, Cody Tennant.
In a bid to sever the family’s ties to the Caribbean last year, Cody put his grandfather’s house, along with 95 acres, up for sale with a price of $23 million, or around £18 million. .
An American was going to buy it, but time ran out and Beau House is now back on the market, for a greatly reduced price of $5.5 million (£4.35 million), with just two acres of land .
Colin Tennant bequeathed everything he owned in the West Indies to his manager and caretaker
In a court battle, Colin’s St. Lucia home, Beau House, and half of the land went to Tennant’s grandson and heir, Cody Tennant.
“At first we were trying to sell the entire property, but now we will sell smaller plots,” explains Penny Strawson, who is marketing the property.
A recent visitor tells me: ‘Sadly, Colin Tennant’s last books and possessions have been placed in black bin bags and are awaiting disposal. It is a regrettable ending. The ‘G’ coat of arms still stands above one of the doors.
Glenconner would have bequeathed a much larger fortune had he retained control of Mustique or even simply his own property there, The Great House. Instead, after falling out with many of those he had lured to the island, he sold and, in 1992, moved to St. Lucia, 100 miles away, where he bought 480 acres, taking his pet elephant Bupa with him. . .
It was there that he finally created another “Great House”, overlooking the west over the Caribbean and situated impressively between the
Pitons, twin volcanic hills rising 800 meters into the sky.
But old age and ill health were beginning to take their toll on his companion, a man whose charm was matched only by the ferocity of his temper, as repeatedly experienced by his stoic wife, Lady Anne, whom he regularly beat, causing her to lose. hearing in his left ear.
“He actually finished the house shortly before he died in 2010,” Strawson says. ‘Kent (Adonai) lived there with him, caring for him until the end.’
By then, Glenconner, who was 83 at the time of his death, had sold several plots of land to those he considered “suitable.” But about 200 acres remained, as did the Beau House property.
Ray Winstone, known as Hollywood’s tough man, is giving up his gangster roles in favor of softer roles that his grandchildren can enjoy.
Winstone, 67, will next appear in the Netflix dark fantasy film Damsel, where he will play Millie Bobby Brown’s on-screen father. “I didn’t really have any interest in being in a fantasy movie; it’s not what I enjoy doing, but I thought, ‘I have grandkids now and it would be cool for them to see me in this instead of punching someone,'” he explains.
Ray Winstone, known as Hollywood’s tough man, is giving up his gangster roles in favor of softer roles that his grandchildren can enjoy.
Iona Campbell, the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, has died aged 78. She made headlines when it emerged that she had been left only £100,000 following the death of her husband, the 12th Duke, in 2001. Her estate, which includes Inveraray Castle, was thought to be worth around £30 million. sterling. “Anyone who looks at Inveraray assumes they have a huge income,” she explained.
‘Well, my husband didn’t. That’s just the way it is, and to keep the house we have to make sure he pays for it, year after year.
Jerry Hall once stated, “I smoke, I drink, I like wine, I love to tan.” I’m doing all kinds of things I shouldn’t be doing,’ and it seems like he still enjoys the bad habits.
The Texan supermodel, 67, was seen smoking a cigarette at Charles de Gaulle airport during Paris Fashion Week. Hall’s penchant for nicotine has been a bone of contention with former flames, including her ex-husband Rupert Murdoch, who was often seen standing at a distance while she smoked.
Sir Mick Jagger, father of her four children, reportedly once said that it was “impossible to live without a cigarette butt in your mouth.”
Hall arrives at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport during Women’s Fashion Week on February 28
Sir Elton John, who suffered an ‘awkward fall’ in 2021 that forced him to have hip replacement surgery, helped him as he left Oswald’s this week.
Wearing a pink suit and his trademark red-tinted glasses, the singer, who turns 77 next month, also sported a foot brace as he was helped down the stairs of Robin Birley’s private members club in Mayfair.
The Evenup shoe balancer costs £31.50 and is said to compensate for the discrepancy caused by wearing an orthopedic boot or other appliance.
Wearing a pink suit and his trademark red-tinted glasses, the singer also sported a foot brace as he was helped down the stairs of Robin Birley’s private members club in Mayfair.
The Evenup shoe balancer costs £31.50 and is said to compensate for the discrepancy caused by wearing an orthopedic boot or other device.
He was one of Britain’s richest financiers and one of its most generous philanthropists; However, as I have heard, Jacob Rothschild was buried in the simplest ceremony. Lord Rothschild, a close friend of King Charles, who died on Monday aged 87, was buried the next day in the Jewish cemetery in Willesden, north London, where generations of his family were buried. “The funeral was a very small, private family event,” his daughter Hannah tells me.