Family loses seven-year legal battle as loyal manservant inherits $24m estate from master after 30-year service

At a will reading, every relative of the deceased present expects the lawyer to mention their name when the property is being distributed.

For the family of Lord Glenconner it came as a surprise when the lawyer allocated all his estates to his black manservant Kent Adonai.

Colin Tennant became 3rd Baron Glenconner when his father passed on in 1983, his wife Lady Anne Glenconner was the Lady-In-Waiting for…