Lord Lucan widow cuts her children out of will
LORD Lucan’s tragic widow cut her three children out of her will and left all of her possessions to the British homeless charity Shelter.
Veronica, the dowager countess of Lucan, who was found dead at her London home in September, was estranged from her son George and daughters Frances and Camilla.
‘Mummy left her estate to the homeless charity, Shelter,’ Camilla, a QC said.
She attended her mother’s inquest this week during which it was revealed she had killed herself with a cocktail of drink and drugs after wrongly believing she was suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
In her later years, Veronica became a rather tragic and lonely figure. Some say she never really recovered from her husband’s disappearance in 1974. He vanished after bludgeoning his children’s nanny to death.
Socialite and author Basia Briggs, who met Veronica every fortnight in her final years, said it was a relief that she left everything to charity rather than the ‘unsavoury characters’ who would swarm around her. ‘I used to have tea with her every other week in London, and she always had a lot of unsavoury characters attending with her, trying to take advantage,’ said Basia.
‘Veronica was terribly vulnerable and fell for men who promised her things and then let her down when they realised she didn’t have much money. It was all so terribly sad.’
In 1999, Lord Lucan was officially declared dead but a death certificate was not granted until 2016.