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Widow of Lord Glenconner begs manservant who inherited West Indies estate to ...

The widow of Lord Glenconner, who has left his fortune to his West Indian manservant, has appealed for him to return part of the estate to the family.

Distressed Lady Anne Glenconner said she hoped that Kent Adonai, 48, ‘would do the right thing’.

Lady Anne, who was a close friend of Princess Margaret, said it was a ‘surprise’ to learn that her husband had left the multi-million pound estate on the Caribbean island of St Lucia to Mr Adonai.

At a memorial service yesterday for Lord Glenconner, 83, near Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders, Lady Anne said: ‘Kent was beloved by my husband but so were we all – I was married to him for 55 years.’

Mr Adonai had walked the baron’s pet elephant in the Caribbean, cooked for his jet-set friends and slept on the floor by his bed for 30 years.

Lord Glenconner changed his will seven months before his death from cancer to leave Mr Adonai everything that had been meant for his heir, his 17-year-old grandson Cody.

This included his beachside house between the Pitons in St Lucia, all its contents and a valley overlooking the Caribbean.

Mr Adonai has now cleared his master’s beach home and is planning a sale of its furniture at auctioneers Bonham’s.

Lady Anne said she would not challenge the will but appealed for its ‘wishes for the family’ to be carried out.

Earlier she told Mail columnist Richard Kay: ‘Some things belong to me personally. I am hoping those will be returned to me.

‘We have looked at the possibility of challenging the will, which would be possible in Britain or America. But under St Lucian law there is no possibility of that.

‘We are hoping Kent will follow what we all knew were my husband’s wishes — namely that Cody would be left his estate in St Lucia.

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