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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The Glenconner family slash the price tag on Caribbean island idyll from £18 million to £4 million after selling off parcels of land on the estate
When Princess Margaret 's friend Colin Tennant, 3rd Lord Glenconner, bequeathed everything he owned in the West Indies to his estate manager and carer, Kent Adonai, his family was left stunned.
A court battle ensued and the family finally reached a settlement with Adonai, a local fisherman, which saw Colin's home in St Lucia, Beau House, and half the land going to his grandson and heir, Cody Tennant. But old age and ill health were beginning to catch up with the peer, a man whose charm was arguably only matched by the ferocity of his temper, as repeatedly experienced by his stoical wife, Lady Anne, whom he beat regularly, causing her to lose the hearing in her left ear. 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 steps of Robin Birley's private members' club in Mayfair.
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