The bitter row that blighted the Queen Mother's fortune Andrew Roberts says that the furore over the royal inheritance has its origins in the Abdication

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: May 12, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Despite being worth somewhere between pounds 50 million and pounds 70 million, the Queen Mother always thought of herself as relatively poor. "The King had to buy out the Duke of the Windsor at the time of the Abdication," she told me at one of Woodrow Wyatt's lunches for her. "It left us terribly short, but otherwise we couldn't have had Balmoral and Sandringham." In fact George VI bought Edward VIII's life interest in those houses for pounds 300,000 in 1937 - about pounds 10 million in today's money - which was much less than half the sum he had inherited the previous year from their ...

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