Les Jolies Eaux, PRINCESS MARGARET’S HOUSE ON MUSTIQUE. But the real background to the whole thing was people having nice holidays on a tropical island.” He was on the island when the scandal around Margaret and Llewellyn broke, but says today the media “exaggerated certain aspects, which I understand-they have to sell product. I know it’s not how she is portrayed in newspaper clippings, but she was a really nice, kind, good person.” She liked partying, late nights, and to dance.”īrian Alexander, who managed the island from 1979 to 2008 and who remains so discreet he professes not to recall anecdotes, said Princess Margaret was a “really good friend to me and my wife, and to everyone here. She loved the fact it was her own.”īasil Charles, former owner of the island’s famous Basil’s Bar, told T&C that Princess Margaret was “an amazing person, so beautiful. She felt inordinate love and pride that this was not from the royal family, it was not her sister’s, it was not grace and favor. “Margaret told me Les Jolies Eaux was the only property she had ever owned in her entire life. “She loved the island,” said Copeland, whose husband, Gerret Copeland, is the son of Lammot du Pont Copeland, the 11th president of the DuPont Company. Margaret came to Mustique twice a year, in October/November and February. Princess Margaret’s luggage on its way to Mustique in 1973. It was Glenconner who introduced Margaret to Llewellyn. Tennant, who bought the island in 1958 for what would then have been around $120,000 and founded the Mustique Company, was married to Lady Anne Glenconner, Margaret's close friend and lady-in-waiting. (The affair and its fallout are portrayed in the third season of The Crown, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Margaret and Harry Treadaway as Llewellyn.)ĭespite the scandal, Margaret adored Mustique until the end of her life, maintaining that it was “the only place I can relax.” Her home on the island, called Les Jolies Eaux, was built on 10 acres of land that had been a wedding gift from Colin Tennant. Margaret and Llewellyn did not end up together-in 1981, he married Tatiana Soskin-but they remained friends until Margaret’s death, aged 71, in 2002. Anwar HusseinĪt the time, Margaret was still married to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones Llewellyn was a landscape gardener 17 years Margaret’s junior, and the exposure of their affair led to Margaret’s split from Armstrong-Jones (known as Lord Snowdon) two years later. Their relationship begin in 1973 and lasted eight years. Princess Margaret (left) with a friend and Roddy Llewellyn (right) on Mustique in 1976. If you couldn’t be bothered to know what she liked to drink, she probably wouldn’t be bothered to come back to you.” “If you didn’t have her whiskey then that was probably the last time she would go to you. “You had to make sure you had it when she came to your house,” says Copeland, an American who, together with her husband, has been going to Mustique since the 1980s. Margaret’s preferred brand, allegedly the Famous Grouse, couldn’t be purchased on the island, which is just three miles long and one and a half miles wide. Vincent and the Grenadines, held the reputation for being a hedonistic idyll-of the very exclusive, fabulously wealthy kind. Tatiana Copeland laughs as she recalls hosting Margaret in Mustique in that gauzy heyday when the Caribbean island, part of St. If you didn’t have the right whiskey, forget it-Princess Margaret wouldn’t be spending long at your party. To mark the final season of the Crown, which sees Princess Margaret in her beloved Mustique home one final time, we're resharing this story from 2019 about the late princess's love affair with the Caribbean island.
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