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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Princess Diana's aunt Mary Roche leaves two of her girls out of her £426,000 will


EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Mary Roche and her sister, Diana's mother, came from a family which had been massively enriched two generations earlier when her grandfather married an American heiress.

Newly published probate documents reveal that, after taxes and other costs had been paid, her total estate amounted to £425,983 — a decidedly modest sum for a woman who, at one stage, owned an airline taking passengers on safari around Kenya and who, early in the first of her three marriages, bought a house in Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, where properties today effortlessly sell for more than £20 million. 'Throughout that time there was a whole department helping secretaries find affordable accommodation and another that was tasked with advising foreign correspondents and others working overseas for the BBC about how to hide their salaries from the taxman by opening bank accounts in Jersey and how to claim the maximum sums in allowances.' For the What Not To Wear presenter- turned-beauty entrepreneur, 59, who is pictured beating the winter cold in an electric blue fluffy coat and crushed velvet trousers, is celebrating some impressive figures at her make-up brand, Trinny London.

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