"The Princess and the Rocking Horse"
Photograph by Antony Armstrong-Jones
from Once Upon a Time, The Story of Antony Armstrong-Jones
by Robert Glenton and Stella King
London, Anthony Blond Ltd, 1960

Everything is connected.

The 3rd Lord Glenconnor, Colin Tennant (1926 - 2010) died last week.  If you haven't seen The Man Who Bought Mustique (2000) you should add it to your Neflix queue.  Colin Tennant turned the barren little Mustique into a glamorous island Studio 54.  He gave Les Jolies Eaux, a house designed by Oliver Messel, to Princess Margaret for her wedding present in 1960.  It became the one place in the world, she said, where she could relax.

Lord Glenconnor is predeceased by his eldest son Charlie, a one-time heroin addict who died of hepatitis in 1996 and  his second son Henry, who died of AIDS in 1990. The third and youngest son, Christopher, was disabled following a motorcycle accident in 1987.  The title passes to Cody Charles Edward Tennant, born in 1994, Charlie's son and Colin Tennant's grandson.

In the documentary of his life on Mustique, Lord Glenconnor is filmed preparing a luncheon for HRH Princess Margaret, an elaborate affair which involves the construction of a tented pavilion on a secluded patch of beach.  At the end, he tells the crew to turn off their cameras.  "What a lot of fuss about --" he says to himself, but doesn't finish.