 Up until the 1970s it was a coconut plantation that had a population of about 50.In the late 19th century, Félicité was home to Sultan Abdullah of Perak, who was exiled here by the British.In 2007, the Seychelles government granted a 99-year lease for the then-uninhabited island, which was taken over by Singaporean real estate developer Kishore Buxani in 2013.