Glenconner wedding joy after snub in £20m will
ANNE GlENcoNNEr shocked the royal Family when she publicly revealed last month that her late husband was a cruel wife-beater who attacked her so badly she was left permanently disabled.
Now, however, Princess Margaret’s best friend has received some joyful news: her grandson, cody Tennant, who became the 4th lord Glenconner at the age of 16, has got engaged to his university sweetheart, rebeka McDonald.
‘I am absolutely delighted,’ lady Glenconner tells me. ‘We are all thrilled. They have known each other for a long time.’
Anne, whose eye-opening memoirs sold more than 500,000 copies after being serialised in the Mail, reveals that the couple have decided to hold the wedding at cody’s ancestral home at The Glen in Peeblesshire. ‘We’re so looking forward to a lovely family wedding at Glen.’
cody, now 28, inherited the title because his father, charles, a former heroin addict, had died in 1996.
Anne’s husband, colin Tennant, the 3rd lord Glenconner, was the great showman of the aristocracy who bought the tiny caribbean island of Mustique and transformed it into a playground for the jetset, giving the Queen’s sister a ten-acre plot as a wedding present.
After colin suffered a fatal heart attack in 2010 at the age of 83, Anne, who was a maid of honour at the Queen’s coronation, was astonished to discover from his £20million will that he had left all his caribbean property to his former valet.
Kent Adonai had worked for Glenconner for 26 years and was with him when he died.
It prompted legal action by cody, which was settled in 2014 with his agreeing a deal to share his grandfather’s fortune with Adonai.
cody, who met his fiancee at Aberdeen University, unsuccessfully sought election to the House of lords as a hereditary peer in 2011.
The wedding venue, Glen House, is where Princess Margaret enjoyed a romance with Sir roddy llewellyn, a landscape gardener 20 years her junior.