Les Jolies Eaux is a former royal residence on a headland on the island of Mustique, St Vincent and the Grenadines. The villa is in a protected landscape, encompassed by the Caribbean seascape. The native French name means 'Beautiful Waters' and sits on , given as a wedding present to Princess Margaret in 1959 by Colin Tennant, later Lord Glenconner. The main house, completed in 1972, was designed by the princess's uncle-in-law Oliver Messel in a theatrical neo-Georgian style. Messel incorporated natural elements of the island in his design. It has an open plan with five bedrooms and a drawing room. There are also two lodges, and of land. This estate was the only property the princess ever owned and she visited regularly, with a range of aristocratic and Hollywood friends. The house was given to her son David in 1996 as a wedding gift. He subsequently placed it on the market; it sold in 1999 for a reported 2 million dollars. Like most of the villas on Mustique it is now available for weekly rentals; tariffs range from $25,000 to $47,000 per week (as of 2022), depending on the season. Les Jolies Eaux has been referenced in 20th and 21st century media including Netflix's The Crown and BBC Two's series Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal. Early history Les Jolies Eaux is a villa situated at the southern tip of Mustique Island. The villa's name is a French term which loosely translates to ‘beautiful waters’. This name was coined by locals as a result of the prime geological location of the property which overlooks the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic. Mustique is located 18 miles south of St Vincent and sits in the northerly region of the Grenadines, placing the villa in the Caribbean province. The Les Jolies Eaux villa takes up a small proportion of Mustique, measuring up to approximately 10 acres of land. The estate was given to the princess in 1959 by Colin Tennant, a British aristocrat and socialite, who had purchased the land in 1959 for around $120,000. The land was a wedding gift, to commemorate her marriage to Lord Snowdon. Tennant reportedly asked Princess Margaret whether she would prefer a ‘wrapped gift’ or land on Mustique. He showed Princess Margaret a map of Mustique and pointed out the available piece of headland. Margaret had visited the spot when picnicking at Les Jolies Eaux with Lord