William and Kate have taken their Royal Famly brood – George, Prince Louis and Princesss Charlotte – to Mustique.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have allowed their son Prince George to break a huge royal protocol for their February half term holiday. Prince William and Kate have taken their Royal Famly brood – George, Prince Louis and Princesss Charlotte – to Mustique.
The five are all believed to have flown business class on the same British Airways flight – the protocol that heirs to the throne fly separately having been relaxed in recent years. A source says they flew to Saint Lucia before taking a private flight to Mustique.
The paradise island was famously the favourite hideaway of the late Princess Margaret as well as a beloved escape for A-list celebrities. The late Queen and Prince Philip also visited in 1966, 1977, and 1985.
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Members of the public are now able to rent Les Jolies Eaux, a five-bedroom property that sits on the southernmost tip of the private Caribbean island, and once provided the perfect sanctuary for Margaret to unwind away from the doom and gloom of the British weather .
Marketed as “the legendary villa designed by Oliver Messel for HRH The Princess Margaret,” there’s no shortage of hints to the building’s ample royal pedigree in the company’s advertising, however even without a royal connection it boasts a degree of luxury few of us will ever have the chance to experience.
According to the villa’s website, “guests arrive through a courtyard and into the glorious Great Room with a view of the pool and the gardens giving way to the Caribbean Sea beyond. The front of the house is instantly recognisable and leads to the extensive lawns running down to the hidden Gelliceaux beach, only discoverable by those ‘in the know’ and after which the house was named.”
Initially the island was one of the royals’ best kept secrets, with very few people knowing about it’s stunning views until Princess Margaret was snapped holidaying there back in 1976. Margaret was actually gifted a 10-acre plot of land on the island by then-owner Colin Tennant as a wedding gift when she married Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960, however the marriage later ended in divorce.