Overview
- The probate records released on Monday, July 20, show Katharine, Duchess of Kent, left a UK estate worth £1,433,696 gross and £1,433,206 net after liabilities were paid.
- The bulk of the estate is for her three children — George Windsor, Lady Helen Taylor and Lord Nicholas Windsor — with the residuary placed in trust for them after legal and funeral costs.
- The Worsley Settlement, a family trust, will pay income to the Duke of Kent for his lifetime and then divide remaining capital and income half to the eldest son, one third to the other son and one sixth to the daughter.
- The will makes specific small legacies and bequests: £10,000 to Future Talent Musicians, £5,000 each to nine named godchildren, and the duchess’s interest in a Kensington property to her grandson Edward Windsor, Baron Downpatrick.
- All personal chattels such as jewellery and furniture were left to the Duke with instructions to follow any note the duchess left, and there are no reports of legal disputes following the public release.