RICHARD EDEN: Princess Margaret made secret visits to Caribbean 郊外住宅s of the rich and famous 含むing David Bowie while they were not at home, 明らかにする／漏らすs TV 星／主役にする Susannah Constantine
Queen Elizabeth always made sure she had left London for Balmoral before 許すing the 広大な／多数の／重要な unwashed to snoop around Buckingham Palace during the summer. Yet her sister, Princess Margaret, was, I learn, just as nosy about other people’s homes as any troublesome tourist.
Television personality Susannah Constantine, who was the girlfriend of Margaret’s son, David, the Earl of Snowdon, for six years in the 1980s, has made the 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 発覚 that the princess would 内密に enter the holiday homes of rich and famous people who lived on Mustique in the West Indies.?
Margaret was given a ten-acre 陰謀（を企てる） of land on the southern tip of the tiny island as a wedding 現在の from flamboyant Scottish aristocrat Colin Tennant, the 3rd Lord Glenconner, who bought Mustique and transformed it into a playground for the jet 始める，決める.
‘She loved snooping 一連の会議、交渉／完成する people’s houses,’ says Susannah, 61, the former co-host of What Not To Wear.?
Referring to the overbearing and 悪意のある housekeeper in Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel Rebecca, she 追加するs: ‘She was like Mrs Danvers, and 事実上 had a master 重要な for every house on the island.’
Margaret was given a ten-acre 陰謀（を企てる） of land on the southern tip of the tiny island as a wedding 現在の from flamboyant Scottish aristocrat Colin Tennant, the 3rd Lord Glenconner, who bought Mustique and transformed it into a playground for the jet 始める，決める. Pictured, the 王室の in Mustique in 1976
Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Mustique?and is welcomed by Princess Margaret in 1977
Susannah says she stayed on Mustique with King Charles’s aunt ‘five or six times’.?
の中で the homes they entered was a Japanese-style 郊外住宅 called Britannia Bay House, which belonged to pop superstar David Bowie.?
It was designed to look like a 寺, decked out in 衝突／不一致ing animal print, which the late singer once 述べるd as ‘the most delightful cliche’.
Susannah says: ‘We went to his house and snooped around. No 安全.’ The Princess 発言／述べるd waspishly of Bowie’s home decoration: ‘She went, “This would look very nice in downtown Tokyo”, because it was sort of Balinese-esque. That was her sort-of put-負かす／撃墜する, of not 特に 認可するing of how it was decorated.’
The presenter, whose own mother struggled with bipolar disorder, developed a の近くに 関係 with the Princess.?Speaking to The Travel Diaries podcast, she 追加するs: ‘I 行方不明になる her.’
Margaret’s 所有物／資産／財産 on the island, Les Jolies Eaux, meaning beautiful waters, was built with the help of theatre designer Oliver Messel.?
The house was a 私的な 聖域 for the Princess, who enjoyed a lively social life on Mustique with friends 含むing her ‘toy boy’ Roddy Llewellyn, the landscape gardener with whom she had an eight-year 事件／事情／状勢.
Five years before she died, Margaret gave Les Jolies Eaux to her son, who sold the 所有物／資産／財産 to American 実業家 Jim Murray.
Princess Margaret and Susannah Constantine.?Susannah says she stayed on Mustique with King Charles’s aunt ‘five or six times’
Princess Margaret and David Bowie pictured 会合 one another in 1969
Other famous 指名するs who have owned homes on Mustique 含む Rolling 石／投石するs singer Sir Mick Jagger and members of the Guinness family.
In 2021 it was 明らかにする／漏らすd that Bowie had even gone so far as to have Princess Margaret 除去するd from a 私的な bash at his 郊外住宅 on the 私的な Caribbean island - 予定 to her 存在 ‘drunk’.
Bowie’s friend Edward Bell 以前 told The Daily Mail: ‘He was telling me about a party he’d hosted in Mustique.
‘Princess Margaret had been 招待するd - and got so drunk that he had to have her chucked out.
‘I said, “Oh dear, she sounds as bad as some of those pop 星／主役にするs.” He took that 不正に and walked straight off.’
