UK: Servant From Caribbean Slum Fights To Keep £20m Inheritance

Kent Adonai with Lord Glenconner.
Adonai's fortune is larger than
 the latest IMF disbursement
 scheduled for Jamaica.

Syndicated gossips are rushing into the island of St Lucia this week for a riveting court case. A white British aristocrat, Lord Glenconner, died three years ago and left his island fortune of £20 million for his faithful, loyal, black St Lucian manservant of 30 years, Kent Adonai.

Now a 19 year-old grandson of the Brit has filed a lawsuit to take the considerable fortune back into the hands of the family. The suit claims that Lord Glenconner was not of sound mind when he revised his will months before his death from cancer at 83, leaving everything for his servant and nothing but the aristocratic titles for his family.

Lord Glenconner, whose real name is Colin Tennant, had been separated from his wife Anne (Lady Glenconner) for decades although they were never divorced. Friends of Lady Glenconner say she had a preference for the cooler climes of Scotland. Her husband, who once chased Princess Margaret for marriage, was happiest in the pleasure playgrounds of the warm and inviting Caribbean isles. read more...