Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson left her £2.3million fortune to the children she never had in a will she wrote 13 years before her death
Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson left her £2.3million fortune to the children she never had in a will she wrote 13 years before her death.
The former IT girl made the will in 2004, leaving her estate to her children once they reached 25.
But Miss Palmer-Tomkinson tragically died childless.
She was found dead by her cleaner in her £4million Kensington apartment in February aged 45.
Her estate, which was valued at £2.34million after her affairs were settled, will now be passed to the families of her ski firm boss brother James and author sister Santa Montefiore, The Sun reported.
In an interview in April last year the socialite said she regretted her wild party lifestyle, saying: ‘I’d like to go back to that young girl and shake her. I did things I’m very ashamed of. I put my family through so much.
‘I thought I’d be married and have two children by now. I imagined I’d be living in the country.’
Miss Palmer-Tomkinson died ‘peacefully in her sleep’ from a perforated stomach ulcer, according to her sister.
Close friends: Prince Charles was ‘broken up’ by the death of close family friend Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. The pair are pictured at a reception in 2003
Dame Joan Collins has revealed the Prince looked visibly distraught after Tara’s death. The pair are pictured in 2016 at the launch of Dame Joan’s book
Palmer-Tomkinson, whose great-great-grandfather was a landowner and Liberal politician, once boasted she had kissed the Prince of Wales every day. Left: Actress Denise Van Outen
In what is believed to be one of her last interviews, she told the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine about her quest to ‘make her family proud again’.
Following the news of her sudden death, her close friends the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were among the first to pay tribute.
Charles and Camilla said they were ‘deeply saddened and our thoughts are so much with the family’.
Ms Palmer-Tomkinson rose to fame in the 1990s as a hard-partying ‘It girl’.
She battled a high-profile cocaine addiction, which she discussed publicly on a number of occasions.