He spent 30 years sleeping on the floor by his master’s bed, and now he’s a multimillionaire. But the widow of deceased Lord Glenconner wants Kent Adonai to give back the generous inheritance that Glenconner left him in his will.
According to London tabloid The Daily Mail, distressed Lady Anne Glenconner said she hoped that Kent Adonai, 48, ‘would do the right thing’.
“Kent was beloved by my husband but so were we all,” said Lady Anne. “I was married to him for 55 years.”
But even though she was married to Lord Glenconner, it was Kent who waited on Glenconner hand and foot, and even slept on the floor by his bed for 30 years.
Lord Glenconner, who was dying of cancer, changed his will seven months before his death. Instead of leaving his fortune to his 17-year-old grandson, Cody — as was originally intended — he left the bulk of his entire estate to his loyal manservant.
Lady Anne, who was a close friend of Princess Margaret, said it came as a “surprise” to her that her husband left the multi-million pound estate on the Caribbean island of St Lucia to Mr Adonai.
The property bequeathed to Kent includes his beachside house between the Pitons in St Lucia, all its contents and a valley overlooking the Caribbean.
Kent already cleared out the main house and now plans to auction off all the antique furniture.
Lady Anne told the Mail columnist Richard Kay that she looked at challenging the will, which would be possible in the United States. But under St Lucian law there is no possibility of that.
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