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1) C. 53 per cent: Some 27 million of us do not have a will, according to a study by charity will Aid. wales has the lowest proportion of people with a will — just 33 per cent. 2) 1D: The fashion designer also left £100,000 to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. 2C: Shakespeare’s bequest has long been seen as a snub, but it was, in fact, a romantic gesture as the best bed would have been an heirloom for show and the second-best one was the bed he actually shared with his wife, Anne Hathaway. 3A: Dickens also wrote: ‘i emphatically direct i be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner’ — and left £1,000 to his mistress, nelly Ternan. 4B: Potter left most of her original illustrations to the national Trust, with the copyright to her stories and merchandise going to publisher Frederick warne & Co. 3) B. £170,000: According to analysis by Prudential. inheritance tax was paid by 6 per cent of estates. London and the SouthEast accounted for half of all payments in the 2012-2013 tax year. 4) C. 1926: The Law of Property Act enabled women to hold and dispose of property under exactly the same terms as men. 5) TRUE: Princess Diana’s will decreed that when Harry turned 30 — 17 years after her death — he and william would inherit her iconic wedding dress. 6) A. Bernie Ecclestone: The Formula one boss is the only one planning to leave his wealth (£2.5 billion) to his children. Daughter Tamara said: ‘My dad has always said everything he’s done, and everything he went without as a child, has been for us.’

Sting, valued at £180 million, said he told his children ‘there won’t be much money left because we are spending it!’

Lawson, whose fortune is thought to be more than £15 million, said: ‘i am determined that my children should have no financial security. it ruins people not having to earn money.’

Simon Cowell said he’ll leave his £325 million to ‘a charity, probably kids and dogs’.