Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner

Early life Colin Tennant was born on 1 December 1926 at 76 Sloane Street in Chelsea, London, the son of the second Baron Glenconner. His mother, Pamela, was the daughter of Sir Richard Paget, 2nd Baronet. After his parents divorced in 1935, he was educated at Scaitcliffe and Eton College, but for years, Tennant rarely saw his father. Holidays from Eton were spent with his maternal grandmother, Lady Muriel Paget, a formidable grande dame who had diverted a train from the Crimea to Siberia in World War I to save the lives of 70 British nannies.

After finishing his schooling at Eton, Tennant enlisted in the Irish Guards, serving during the tail end of World War II and attaining the rank of lieutenant.

After the war, he attended New College, Oxford. At Oxford, he gained a reputation for being "terribly kind to plain girls with nice manners and extremely waspish to pretty ones with nasty manners". during 1953. The following year, he was forced to deny newspaper reports that he would shortly announce his engagement to the Princess. "I don't expect she would have had me," he said in later years. After about three years, the restaurant, constructed as "an almost exact copy of Oliver Messel's stage set for the 1950s Broadway musical House of Flowers", went bankrupt. It was eventually resurrected by the Hilton chain of hotels as the Jalousie Bar, part of the Jalousie Resort.

Glenconner and his involvement in Mustique have been the subject of multiple documentaries. In 1971, he was interviewed by Alan Whicker for an episode of Whicker's World set on the island. In 2000, a documentary by Joseph Bullman titled The Man Who Bought Mustique, included Glenconner's first visit to Mustique since his exile. According to a reviewer, Tennant's "occasionally dictatorial manner" was "amply displayed" in the documentary. To describe Tennant, he wrote, "You had to imagine your most crotchety uncle on his worst day and magnify that tenfold." and was also a close friend and lady-in-waiting of the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret.

Lord and Lady Glenconner had five children, three sons and twin daughters: Hon. Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant (15 February 1957 – 19 October 1996; aged 39). He married Sheilagh Scott in 1993. He developed a heroin addiction and died of Hepatitis C. His son Cody Charles Edward Tennant (born 2 February 1994) became the 4th baron. He is married to Rebeka McDonald. They have two children together. Hon. Henry Lovell Tennant (21 February 1960 – 2 January 1990; aged 29). He died from AIDS. He married Tessa Cormack (1959–2018) in 1983; their son, Euan Lovell Tennant (born 1983), is the current heir presumptive to the barony. Euan is married to Helen Tennant. They have two children together. Hon. Christopher Cary Tennant (born 25 April 1968). He suffered severe brain damage in a motorcycle accident in 1987. Hon. Flora May Pamela Tennant (born 8 November 1970), a god-daughter of Princess Margaret. She married Anton Ronald Noah Creasy on 18 April 2005. They have two daughters together. Hon. Amy Jasmine Elizabeth Tennant (born 8 November 1970). No issue.

Colin Tennant inherited the peerage title and the Tennant baronetcy, along with the family's Scottish estate of The Glen, in 1983, on his father's death. The couple came to divide their time between their house on St. Lucia and their home in England. With his daughter May and her husband, Anton, Glenconner began developing the Beau Estate property between the Pitons. As his eldest son, the Hon. Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant (1957–1996), predeceased him, Glenconner was succeeded by his grandson, Cody Charles Edward Tennant (born 2 February 1994).

In December 2009, Tennant, then aged 83, learned he was also the father of London psychotherapist Joshua Bowler (born 1955). Bowler's mother, the artists' model and bohemian Henrietta Moraes, had become pregnant following a weekend spent with Tennant after the New Year's Eve 1954 Chelsea Arts Club Ball. However, she never told Tennant about the pregnancy and married the actor Norman Bowler seven months later; the couple divorced two and a half years later. After Moraes died in 1999, Joshua Bowler decided to investigate his parentage and wrote to Tennant after a mutual friend recalled seeing the young Tennant and Moraes leave the 1954 ball together. A paternity test revealed that Tennant was indeed Bowler's father, news Tennant regarded as "quite magical." Tennant later announced his intention to recognise him in his will.

When Lord Glenconner died in 2010, it was revealed that he had made a new will shortly before his death, leaving all his assets to an employee, Kent Adonai. The family contested this will, and after several years of legal battles, the estate was divided between Cody Charles Edward Tennant and Adonai, with the case ruling in Adonai's favour.

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