Lady Lucan cut children from will and left fortune to charity

♦ Lady Lucan, whose husband vanished in the Seventies, cut her children out of her will and left her fortune to a homeless charity, her daughter has said.

The 80-year-old was found dead at her home in Westminster, London, by police in September.

She had three children – Frances, Camilla and George, who is now the 8th Earl of Lucan – but had severed relations with her family in the Eighties. Camilla Bingham, a QC, told The Daily Mail after an inquest held in London: “Mummy left her estate to the homeless charity Shelter.” The charity said the legacy will “help us to continue fighting bad housing and homelessness”.

John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, Lady Lucan’s husband, disappeared in November 1974 after the discovery of the body of Sandra Rivett, their nanny, at the family’s home.

Lady Lucan is said to have killed herself after wrongly self-diagnosing Parkinson’s.