Princess Margaret once called the island of Mustique “the only place I can relax”, and now anyone can relax there – albeit for a high price.
The public can rent Les Jolies Eaux, a five-bedroom property located on the southernmost tip of a private Caribbean island that served as a getaway for Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister. The price per week ranges from $33,000 to $47,000, depending on the season, according to the rental website.
Inside Les Jolies Eaux (which PEOPLE previously reported translates to “beautiful waters”), “guests enter through a courtyard and into a magnificent Great Room overlooking the pool and gardens that give way to the Caribbean Sea beyond,” according to the rental website. The front of the house leads to expansive lawns that slope down to a hidden beach, and the home still boasts many of the same features once enjoyed by Princess Margaret, including a poolside dining pavilion that is “open on all four sides, allowing for gentle breezes that cools guests as they relax and absorb the ever-changing view and sense of history that surrounds them.”
The villa team includes a butler, a cook, a gardener and two maids.
Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret during their visit to Mustique in 1977.
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Inside Princess Margaret’s private island life on Mustique
The royal getaway was little known in the world until photographs of Princess Margaret and her lover Roddy Llewellyn were published in News from the world in 1976.
Margaret was given a 10-acre plot of land on the island by then-owner Colin Tennant as a wedding present when she married Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. (That marriage dissolved in 1978 after the Llewellyn scandal.)
Princess Margaret’s adventures in Mustique, including parties, are woven into Netflix stories Crown. The last season of the series shows how the royal family suffered a stroke during a visit to the island in 1998.
Five years before Margaret died in 2002, the mansion was passed to her son David, according to Hello!and David sold the estate after her death to American businessman Jim Murray.
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Princess Margaret’s villa in Mustique.
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Mustique has remained a favorite 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 since spent many family vacations there, including two honeymoons!
Martin Katz, the celebrity jeweler who designed Kim Kardashian’s wedding day earrings, met the future Prince and Princess of Wales while he and his wife were on holiday in Mustique in 2008.
“I was standing at [hotel] bar ordering one of the fancy drinks and Kate actually came up to the bar and was quite pleasant and chatty. She couldn’t have been more friendly and outgoing,” Katz previously told PEOPLE.
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