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Princess Margaret’s Island Getaway on Mustique for rent


Princess Margaret’s Island Getaway on Mustique for rent

Princess Margaret once described the island of Mustique as “the only place I can relax,” and now anyone can relax there—but at a hefty price.

The public can rent Les Jolies Eaux, the five-bedroom estate on the southernmost tip of the private Caribbean island that served as a retreat for Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister. Weekly rates range from $33,000 to $47,000, depending on the time of year, according to the rental website.

Inside Les Jolies Eaux (which means “the beautiful waters,” according to PEOPLE), “guests enter through a courtyard into the magnificent great room overlooking the pool and gardens that open to the Caribbean Sea beyond,” the rental website says. The front of the home leads to the expansive lawns that lead down to a hidden beach, and the house still has many of the same features Princess Margaret once enjoyed, including a dining pavilion next to the pool that is “open on all four sides, allowing gentle breezes to keep guests cool as they relax and soak up the ever-changing views and sense of history around them.”

The villa’s team includes a butler, a cook, a gardener and two housekeepers.

Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret during a visit to Mustique in 1977.

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The royal outing was hardly known worldwide until photos of Princess Margaret and her lover Roddy Llewellyn were published in News from around the world in 1976.

When Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960, she was given a 10-acre plot of land on the island as a wedding present by the then owner, Colin Tennant. (The couple divorced in 1978 in the wake of the Llewellyn scandal.)

Princess Margaret’s adventures on Mustique, including parties, were incorporated into the storylines of Netflix’ The crown. The final season of the series showed the king suffering a stroke during a visit to the island in 1998.

Five years before Margaret’s death in 2002, the property was passed on to her son David, so Hello!and David sold the property after her death to American businessman Jim Murray.

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Princess Margaret’s villa in Mustique.

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Mustique continues to be a popular vacation spot for the British royal family, including Kate Middleton and Prince William. PEOPLE previously reported that the couple first visited the island together as boyfriend and girlfriend in 2008 and have spent many family vacations there since then, including two babymoons!

Martin Katz, a celebrity jeweler who designed the earrings for Kim Kardashian’s wedding, met the future Prince and Princess of Wales in 2008 while vacationing with his wife in Mustique.

“I was standing at the (hotel) bar and ordered one of the fancy drinks, and Kate actually came to the bar and was very nice and chatty. She couldn’t have been more friendly and open,” Katz previously told PEOPLE.

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