There’s something about Mustique, and wOw’s Gypsy Mary Wells knows — she’s lived there 25 years, and shares her experiences with wowOwow.

“Sometime in the ’80s, Colin Tennant, or Lord Glenconner as I think he prefers, suggested selling his half of the island of Mustique to my husband and me – it was a balmy night and we were at dinner in our beach house where Harding [Lawrence] and I lived while building the terraces, a kind of palace on a hill. Colin had tears in his eyes, Harding was stunned and I was delighted at the idea. Colin and I are friends. I have always appreciated him. He has an eccentric and theatrical side that annoys some people — not me — but he comes up with creative ideas all of us have thoroughly enjoyed. It was his idea to turn Mustique into a beautiful and charming place to live, a good idea if there ever was one …”

Click here to read the rest of Mary Wells’s experiences in Mustique.