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A castle on a private Scottish island? Yours for £5.5 million
I n 1946 the Dowager Viscountess Selby walked into a London estate agent's office and asked if they had any islands for sale. She and her family had been left shaken by the Second World War, during which her partner, Donald Wells, had served as an airborne pathfinder and become one of the first troops to parachute into France on D-Day. They were ready to quit the south of England and seek a fresh start in isolation somewhere far away.
'They must have thought she was eccentric,' says the viscountess's grandson Jim Gully, nearly 80 years on. 'But they said, we've got one island on the west coast of Scotland. Without ever having seen it, she bought Shuna and moved the whole family up. We've been there ever since.'
