When 23-year-old Anne Coke married the Scottish aristocrat Colin Tennant at St Withburga s Parish Church in Norfolk on 21 April 1956, it must have seemed like a fairytale match.
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.
He arrived on the golden sands of St Lucia in 1987, the self-styled King of the Caribbean . Riding his pet elephant, Bupa, in a white linen suit and straw hat, Lord Glenconner was sure to make an entrance.
An eclectic collection of jewels, works of art, photographs and ornate furniture amassed by the late Lord Glenconner – including gifts from Princess Margaret – is to be auctioned towards the upkeep of his estate on the Caribbean island of St Lucia, Patrick Sawer of London’s Telegraph reports. It was the most celebrated - and…
Lady Anne Glenconner has written a memoir titled “Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life." It details her tumultuous marriage to Lord Colin Tennant, the Baron Glenconner.