It’s an indelible image of an unforgettable woman. Princess Diana is sitting by a pool, a few months before she died, her hair windswept and her smile relaxed. She’s on vacation in an elite, discreet enclave in the , an island she treasured as one of the few places she could wander undisturbed by the paparazzi: Barbuda. At that time, it was a jet-set escape, centered on the K Club, a small resort owned by Italian fashion entrepreneur Mariuccia Mandelli of Krizia. “Princess Diana walked past me on the beach there,” recalls interior designer Tara Bernerd, who vacationed at the retreat with her father, Elliott Bernerd, one of Britain’s most successful property developers. The K Club was seen as a low-key counterpart to Mustique or St. Barts. “The island was still very undeveloped. And the K C

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