{"id":1059,"date":"2010-08-20T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2010-08-21T00:24:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T04:24:52","slug":"reason-brabourne-quit-britan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/reason-brabourne-quit-britan","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Lord Brabourne Quit Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1061\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1061\" title=\"jeannie-mcweeny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jeannie-mcweeny-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jeannie-mcweeny-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jeannie-mcweeny-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jeannie-mcweeny.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bahamian beauty: Jeannie McWeeny <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just days after it emerged that the Queen\u2019s cousin, Lord Brabourne,  has quit Britain \u2014 leaving \u00adbehind his wife of 30 years \u2014 to start a new  life in the Caribbean, I discover the real reason why.<\/p>\n<p>A close  friend of Prince Charles since childhood, Brabourne, 62, has fallen  madly in love, I can reveal, with exotic Bahamian beauty Jeannie  McWeeny, 57, who is the daughter of a humble hotel receptionist.<\/p>\n<p>The  couple have known each other for a number of years, because Brabourne \u2014  whose \u00adfamily pile, Broadlands, is a 60-room Palladian mansion set in  5,000 acres in Hampshire \u2014 often winters at his retreat on tiny  Windermere Island in the \u00adBahamas.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being a popular figure in the Bahamas, Jeannie runs her  own fashion business, Jeannie McQueeny, designing Caribbean-themed  clothes and jewellery, which are sold in Harrods.<\/p>\n<p>Left behind  in this merry-go-round is Norton\u2019s long-suffering wife Penny, who has  for many years been the carriage-driving muse of the Duke of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brabourne, 62, has fallen madly in love with exotic Bahamian beauty Jeannie McWeeny, 57, who runs her own fashion business designing Caribbean-themed clothes and jewellery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}