Nicholas Courtney managed Mustique – and cooked dinner for a starving Princess Margaret
‘Just f**k off – dinner will be ready when dinner’s ready!’ I said to yet another ghostly figure who appeared out of the Stygian gloom at the kitchen door of the Cotton House Hotel on Mustique. ‘Yes, but how long will it be – we’re all starving out here,’ piped the familiar voice of Princess Margaret. The day had not gone well. The new chefette, terrified at the reports of Mustique founder Colin Tennant’s vicious temper, had scarpered just before he, HRH and the rest of the party arrived on the island for the 1971 Thanksgiving weekend. Since there was no chance of replacing the cook, it was up to me, as general manager of the Mustique Company, with overall responsibility for the island and the hotel, to prepare dinner … with the help of 20 volumes of the exotic Gourmet Cookbook. Then the generator gave up the ghost, plunging...
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