I DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES
of Kensington Palace London W8 HEREBY REVOKE all former Wills
and testamentary dispositions
made by
me AND DECLARE this to be my last Will which I make this First
day Of
June One thousand nine hundred and ninety three
1 I APPOINT my mother THE HONOURABLE MRS FRANCES
RUTH SHAND KYDD of Callinesh Isle of Seil Oban Scotland and
COMMANDER PATRICK DESMOND CHRISTIAN JERMY
JEPHSON of St James's Palace London SW1 to be the Executors and
Trustees of this my Will
2 I WISH to be buried
3 SHOULD any child of mine be under age at the date of the death of
the
survivor of myself and my husband I APPOINT my mother and my
brother
EARL SPENCER to be the guardians of that child and I express
the wish
that should I predecease my husband he will consult with my mother
with
regard to the upbringing education and welfare of our children
4 (a) I GIVE free of inheritance tax all my chattels to my Executors
jointly (or
if only one of them shall prove my Will to her or him)
(b) I DESIRE them (or if only one shall prove her or him)
(i) To give effect as soon as possible but not later than two years
following my death to any written memorandum or notes of
wishes of mine with regard to any of my chattels
(ii) Subject to any such wishes to hold my chattels (or the
balance thereof) in accordance with Clause 5 of this my Will
(c) FOR the purposes of this Clause "chattels" shall have
the same meaning as
is assigned to the expression "personal chattels" in the
Administration of
Estates Act 1925 (including any car or cars that I may own at
the time of my death)
(d) I DECLARE that all expenses for the safe custody of and insurance
incurred prior to giving effect to my wishes and for packing transporting and
insurance for the purposes of the delivery to the respective recipients of
their
particular chattels shall be borne by my residuary estate
5 SUBJECT to the payment or discharge of my funeral testamentary and
administration expenses and debts and other liabilities I GIVE all my property
and assets of every kind and wherever situate to my Executors and Trustees
Upon trust either to retain (if they think fit without being liable for loss)
all or
any part in the same state as they are at the time of my death or to sell
whatever and wherever they decide with power when they consider it proper
to invest trust monies and to vary investments in accordance with the powers
contained in the Schedule to this my Will and to hold the same UPON
TRUST for such of them my children PRINCE WILLIAM and PRINCE
HENRY as are living three months after my death and attain the age of
twenty five years if more than one in equal shares PROVIDED THAT if either
child of mine dies before me or within three months after my death and issue
of that child are living three months after my death and attain the age of
twenty
one years such issue shall take by substitution if more than one in equal shares
per stirpes the share that the deceased child of mine would have taken had
he
been living three months after my death but so that no issue shall take whose
parent is then living and so capable of taking
6 MY EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES shall have the following powers in
addition to all other powers over any share of the Trust Fund
(a) POWER under the Trustee Act 1925 Section 31 to apply income for
maintenance and to accumulate surplus income during a minority but as if the
words "my Trustees think fit" were substituted in sub-section (1)(i)
thereof for
the words "may in all the circumstances be reasonable" and as if
the proviso at
the end of sub-section (1) thereof was ommitted
(b) POWER under the Trustee Act 1925 Section 32 to pay or apply capital
for advancement or benefit but as if proviso (a) to sub-section
(1) thereof
stated that "no payment or application shall be made to or for
any person
which exceeds altogether in amount the whole of the presumptive or vested
share or interest of that person in the trust property or other than for the
personal benefit of that person or in such manner as to prevent limit or
postpone his or her interest in possession in that share or interest"
7 THE statutory and equitable rules of apportionment shall not apply
to my
Will and all dividends and other payments in the nature of income
received by
the Trustees shall be treated as income at the date of receipt
irrespective of
the period for which the dividend or other income is payable
8 IT is my wish (but without placing them under any binding obligation)
that
my executors employ the firm of Mishcon de Reya of 21 Southampton
Row
London WC1B 5HS in obtaining a Grant of Probate to and administering
my estate
9 ANY person who does not survive me by at least three months shall
be
deemed to have predeceased me for the purpose of ascertaining
the
devolution of my estate and the income thereof
10 IF at any time an Executor or Trustee is a professional or business
person
charges can be made in the ordinary way for all work done by
that person or his firm or company or any partner or employee
THE SCHEDULE
MY Executors and Trustees (hereinafter referred to as "my Trustees")
in
addition to all other powers conferred on them by law or as the
result of the
terms of this my Will shall have the following powers
1 (a) FOR the purposes of any distribution under Clause 5 to appropriate
all
or any part of my said property and assets in or toward satisfaction
of any
share in my residuary estate without needing the consent of anyone
(b) FOR the purposes of placing a value on any of my personal chattels
(as
defined by the Administration of Estates Act 1925) so appropriated to use if
they so decide such value as may have been placed on the same by any
Valuers they instruct for inheritance tax purposes on my death or such other
value as they may in their absolute discretion consider fair and my Trustees
in
respect of any of my personal chattels which being articles of national scientific
historic or artistic interest are treated on such death as the subject of a
conditionally exempt transfer for the purposes of the Inheritance Tax Act
1984 Section 30 (or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof) shall
in respect of any such appropriation place such lesser value as they in their
absolute discretion consider fair after taking into account such facts and
surrounding circumstances as they consider appropriate including the fact that
inheritance tax for which conditional exemption was obtained might be
payable by the beneficiary on there being a subsequent chargeable event
(c) TO insure under comprehensive or any other cover against any
risks and
for any amounts (including allowing as they deem appropriate for any possible
future effects of inflation and increasing building costs and expenses) any
asset
held at any time by my Executors and Trustees And the premiums in respect
of any such insurance may be discharged by my Executors and Trustees either
out of income or out of capital (or partly out of one and partly out of the
other) as my Executors and Trustees shall in their absolute discretion
determine and any monies received by my Executors and Trustees as the
result of any insurance insofar as not used in rebuilding reinstating replacing
or
repairing the asset lost or damaged shall be treated as if they were the
proceeds of sale of the asset insured PROVIDED ALWAYS that my
Executors and Trustees shall not be under any responsibility to insure or be
liable for any loss that may result from any failure so to do
2 (a) POWER to invest trust monies in both income producing and
non-income producing assets of every kind and wherever situated and to vary
investments in the same full and unrestricted manner in all respects as if
they
were absolutely entitled thereto beneficially
(b) POWER to retain or purchase as an authorised investment any freehold
or
leasehold property or any interest or share therein of whatever nature
proportion or amount (which shall be held upon trust to retain or sell the
same) as a residence for one or more beneficiaries under this my Will and in
the event of any such retention or purchase my Trustees shall have power to
apply trust monies in the erection alteration improvement or repair of any
building on such freehold or leasehold property including one where there is
any such interest or share And my Trustees shall have power to decide
(according to the circumstances generally) the terms and conditions in every
respect upon which any such person or persons may occupy and reside at any
such property (or have the benefit of the said interest or share therein)
(c) POWER to delegate the exercise of their power to invest trust
monies
(including for the purpose of holding or placing them on deposit pending
investment) and to vary investments to any company or other persons or
person whether or not being or including one or more of my Trustees and to
allow any investment or other asset to be held in the names or name of such
person or persons as nominees or nominee of my Trustees and to decide the
terms and conditions in every respect including the period thereof and the
commission fees or other remuneration payable therefor which commission
fees or other remuneration shall be paid out of the capital and income of that
part of the Trust Fund in respect of which they are incurred or of any property
held on the same trusts AND I DECLARE that my Trustees shall not be liable
for any loss arising from any act or omission by any person in whose favour
they shall have exercised either or both their powers under this Clause
(d) POWER to retain and purchase chattels of every description under
whatever terms they hold the same by virtue of the provisions of this my Will
And in respect thereof they shall have the following powers
(i) To retain the chattels in question under their joint control
and
custody or the control and custody of any of them or to store the
same (whether in a depository or warehouse or elsewhere)
(ii) To lend all or any of the chattels to any person or persons or
body or bodies (including a museum or gallery) upon such terms
and conditions as my Trustees shall determine
(iii) To cause inventories to be made
(iv) Generally to make such arrangements for their safe custody
repair and use as having regard to the circumstances my
Trustees may from time to time think expedient
(v) To sell the chattels or any of them and
(vi) To treat any money received as the result of any insurance in
so far as not used in reinstating replacing or repairing any chattel
lost or damaged as if it were the proceeds of sale of the chattel
insured
(e) POWER in the case of any of the chattels of which a person of
full age
and capacity is entitled to the use but when such person's interest is less
than
an absolute one
(i) To cause an inventory of such chattels to be made in duplicate
with a view to one part being signed by the beneficiary for
retention by my Trustees and the other part to be kept by the
beneficiary and to cause any such inventory to be revised as
occasion shall require and the parts thereof altered accordingly
(ii) To require the beneficiary to arrange at his or her expense for
the safe custody repair and insurance of such chattels in such
manner as my Trustees think expedient and (where it is not
practicable so to require the beneficiary) to make such
arrangements as are referred to under paragraph (iv) of
sub-clause (d) of this Clause
PROVIDED THAT my Trustees shall also have power to meet any expenses
which they may incur in the exercise of any of their powers in respect of
chattels out of the capital and income of my estate or such one or more of
any
different parts and the income thereof as they shall in their absolute discretion
determine AND I FURTHER DECLARE that my Trustees shall not be
obliged to make or cause to be made any inventories of any such chattels that
may be held and shall not be liable for any loss injury or damage that may
happen to any such chattels from any cause whatsoever or any failure on the
part of anyone to effect or maintain any insurance
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year first
above written
SIGNED by HER ROYAL HIGHNESS )
in our joint presence and )
then by us in her presence )
I DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES of Kensington Palace London W8
DECLARE this to be a First Codicil to my Will which is dated the first day
of
June One thousand nine hundred and ninety three
1. My Will shall be construed and take effect as if in clause 1 the
name and
address of Commander Patrick Desmond Christian Jermy Jephson were
omitted and replaced by the following:
my sister Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale (known as The Lady
Sarah
McCorquodale) of Stoke Rochford Grantham Lincolnshire NG33 5EB
2. In all other respects I confirm my said Will.
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year first
above written
SIGNED by HER ROYAL HIGHNESS )
in our joint presence and )
then by us in her presence )
I DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES of Kensington Palace London W8
DECLARE this to be a First Codicil to my Will which is dated the first day
of
June One thousand nine hundred and ninety three
1. My Will shall be construed and take effect as if in clause 1 the
name and
address of Commander Patrick Desmond Christian Jermy Jephson were
omitted and replaced by the following:
my sister Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale (known as The Lady
Sarah
McCorquodale) of Stoke Rochford Grantham Lincolnshire NG33 5EB
2. In all other respects I confirm my said Will.
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this First day of
February One thousand nine hundred and ninety six
SIGNED by HER ROYAL HIGHNESS )
in our joint presence and then )
by us in her presence )
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
FAMILY DIVISION
Lawrence Graham
190 Strand, London
WC2R 1JN
DX 39 LON/CH'RY LN WC2
Ref: MG/TTJ/H2858/1
The Principal Registry
In the estate of DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES deceased
We, THE HONOURABLE MRS FRANCES RUTH SHAND KYDD of Callinesh,
Isle of Seil, Oban, Scotland, THE LADY ELIZABETH SARAH LAVINIA
McCORQUODALE of Grange Farm, Stoke Rochford, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG33
5RD and THE RIGHT REVERAND AND RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD
JOHN CAREW CHARTRES of The Old Deanery, Deans Court, London EC4V
5AA, make oath and say that:
1. We believe the paper writing now produced to and marked by us
to contain the true
and original last Will and Testament with Codicil of Diana, Princess of Wales
of
Kensington Palace, London W8 4PU, deceased who died on the 31st day of August
1997 aged 36 years domiciled in England and Wales;
2. To the best of our knowledge, information and belief there was
no land vested in the
said deceased which was settled previously to her death and not
by her Will which
remained settled land nothwithstanding her death;
3. We, The Honourable Mrs. Frances Ruth Shand Kydd and The Lady Elizabeth
Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale are the Executors named in the said Will with Codicil
and I, The Right Reverand and Right Honourable Richard John Carew Chartres
was
appointed as an additional Executor by an Order made in The High Court of Justice
Chancery Division (CH1997 No W 6888) and dated the 19th December 1997
pursuant to Section 1(1) of the Judicial Trustee Act 1896;
4. We will:
(i) collect, get in and administer according to the law the real
and personal estate of the
said deceased;
(ii) when required to do so by the Court, exhibit on oath in the
Court a full inventory of
the said estate and when so required render an account thereof to the court;
and
(iii) when required to do so by the High Court, deliver up to that
court the grant of
probate;
5. To the best of our information and belief the gross estate passing
under the grant
amounts to £21,711,485 and the net estate amounts to £21,468,352.
SWORN by the above named Deponent
THE HONOURABLE MRS FRANCES RUTH SHAND KYDD /s/
at 190 The Strand London EC4
this 19th day of February 1998
Before me
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
The Principal Registry of the Family Division
BE IT KNOWN THAT DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES
of Kensington Palace London W8
died on the 31st day of August 1997
domiciled in England and Wales
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that the last Will and Testament with a Codicil
of
the said deceased (a copy of which is annexed) was proved and registered in
the High
Court of Justice and that Administration of all the estate which by law devolves
to and
vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the
said Court
on this date to the Executors
The Honourable FRANCES RUTH SHAND KYDD of Callinesh Isle of Seil
Oban
Scotland
and The Lady ELIZABETH SARAH LAVINIA McCORQUODAEL of Grange
Farm Stoke Rochford Grantham Lincolnshire NG33 5BD
and The Right Reverend and Right Honourable RICHARD JOHN CAREW
CHARTRES of The Old Deanery Deans Court London EC4V 5AA
It is hereby certified that it appears from information supplied
on the application for this
grant that the gross value of the said estate in the United Kingdom amounts
to
£21,468,352
Dated the 2nd day of March 1998
/s/
PROBATE OFFICER
Extracted by LAWRENCE GRAHAM (Ref: MG/TTJ/H2858/1) 190 The Strand
London WC2R 1JN
APPENDIX I
Part I
List of Items by reference to Christie's Catalogue
|
Page |
No |
Description |
|
105
|
75
|
Odenby x 4
|
|
94
|
341
|
Odenby Coffee svs
|
|
99
|
361
|
H Cockerel
|
|
123
|
409
|
Decanter
|
|
58
|
217
|
Carriage Clock
|
|
80
|
287
|
Dres c/s and pen tray
|
|
110
|
383
|
Shepherd/ess
|
|
28
|
95
|
Watercolour
|
|
103-105
|
372
|
Herend Animals
|
|
35
|
128
|
Watercolour
|
|
34
|
124
|
Watercolour
|
|
109
|
378
|
Hunting figs.
|
|
110
|
386
|
Pt tea svs
|
|
103-105
|
372
|
Herend animals
|
|
110
|
381
|
Bird Niodel
|
|
46
|
174
|
Model harp
|
Part II
List of Godchildren
Master Jack Bartholomew
Miss Clare Cazalet
Lord Downpatrick
Master Jack Faulkner
Master George Frost
The Lady Edwina Grosvenor
Miss Antonia Harrington
HRH Prince Phillipos of the Hellenes
The Hon Alexandra Knatchbull
Miss Leonora Lonsdale
Master Benjamin Samuel
Miss Daisy Soames
Miss Camilla Straker
Miss Antonia Twiston Davies
Master Jakie Warren
The Lady Mary Wellesley
Miss Domenica Lawson
APPENDIX II
In this Appendix references to "the Trusts" shall be construed
as referring to the trusts
of the Discretionary Fund or of the Residuary Fund as the case
may require and "the
Trust Fund" shall be construed accordingly.
(1) Power as regards any monies for the time being subject to the
Trusts and requiring
investment to invest or lay out the same in the purchase or otherwise in the
acquisition
of or at interest upon the security of any shares stocks funds securities policies
of
insurance or other investments or property movable or immovable) of whatsoever
nature and wheresoever situate and whether or not productive of income and
whether
involving liability or not or upon such personal credit with or without security
in all
respects as my Trustees shall in their discretion think fit to the intent that
my Trustees
shall have the same full and unrestricted powers of investing transposing investments
and dealing with trust monies and buying or selling property in all respects
as if they
were absolutely entitled beneficially and so that
(a) the acquisition with trust monies of property with a view to its
enjoyment in kind by
a beneficiary or beneficiaries hereunder shall be deemed to be
an investment thereof
(b) any immovable property situate anywhere in the world other than
in England and
Wales which may be acquired for any of the purposes of the Trusts
including its
enjoyment in kind) may either be vested in my Trustees upon trust
for sale with power
to postpone sale or held by such persons or person and in such
manner as my Trustees
may think fit
(c) nothing hereinbefore in this sub-paragraph contained shall in
anyway exclude limit or
restrict any power to purchase any legal estate in land situate
in England and Wales
which may be conferred on my Trustees by sub-sections (3) and
(4) of Section 6 and
by Section 17 of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees
Act 1996
(2) Power to accept or acquire and to retain any assets subject or
to be subject to the
Trusts (including any uninvested money) in their actual state
and condition for any
period even although the whole or a substantial part of the assets
so subject may be
producing no or insufficient income.
(3) Power at any time or times to sell or convert or call in any investments
or other
property for the time being comprised in the Trusts or to transpose
or convert the same
into any other investments or property the acquisition of which
is hereby authorised
(4) Power at any time or times to apply any money subject to the Trusts
in making,
improvements to or otherwise developing or using any land or
buildings or in erecting
enlarging repairing decorating making alterations to or improvements
in or pulling down
and rebuilding any buildings which shall or the proceeds of sale of which would
be
subject to the same trusts as the money so applied
(5) Power to lease let licence mortgage and charge and to grant tenancies
and licences
and to accept surrenders of leases tenancies and licences and
to enter into and carry
into effect any grants agreements or arrangements whatsoever
of or relating to and
generally to manage and deal with any land or buildings which
shall for the time being
be subject to the Trusts or the proceeds of any sale of which
would be for the time
being so subject in all respects as if my Trustees were an absolute
beneficial owner of
such land or buildings and so that no mortgagee or chargee dealing
with my Trustees in
regard to any such land or buildings shall be concerned to see
for what purpose any
raised or as to the application thereof
(6) Power to hire out or lend or bail any movable chattels for any
period or periods and
for any consideration whatsoever
(7) In relation to any property other than land and buildings the
like powers of
mortgaging charging and entering into and carrying into effect
any agreements or
arrangements whatsoever as are given by paragraph (5) of this
Appendix in regard to
land and buildings
(8) Power to borrow or raise money for the purposes of mere investment
or for
acquiring any property or the payment of taxes or expenses either without security
or
on the security of the whole or part of the trust assets and any property so
acquired
(9) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (5) and (7)
of this Appendix
power to effect any mortgage or charge under those paragraphs
as collateral security
for or to guarantee monies payable in respect of any loan to
a beneficiary or
beneficiaries upon such terms in all respects as my Trustees
shall in their absolute
discretion think fit.
(10) Power to refer to arbitration or to the determination of any
expert:
(a) the amount of the monies to be received or paid on any sale or
purchase or
exchange
(b) the amount of the rent or other payment to be reserved by any
lease tenancv
agreement or licence in respect of the whole or any part of the
term or currency thereof
and the covenants and provisions to be contained in any such
lease tenancy agreement
or licence
(c) the terms for the surrender or other termination of any lease
tenancy or licence
(d) all disputes between any tenant or licensee and the reversioner
or licensor
(11) Power from time to time to set a value upon any investments or
other property
subject to the Trusts as my Trustees shall think fit and to appropriate
if they shall think
fit any such investments or property at such value in or towards satisfaction
of any share
or interest under the trusts affecting the same
(12) Power at any time or times to have any assets valued for any
purpose in such
manner as my Trustees shall in their discretion think fit
(13) Power to promote or form or join in promoting or forming any
company or
corporation for the purpose of acquiring or taking on lease or
hire for any estate or
interest all or any of the assets which (or the net proceeds
of any sale of which) are held
subject to the Trusts or for any other purpose whatsoever connected
with any such
assets
(14) Power to subscribe for all or any of the shares debentures or
other securities of
any such company or corporation as is mentioned in paragraph
(13) above
(15) Power to sell transfer let or hire out for any estate or interest
any assets which (or
the net proceeds of any sale of which) are subject to any of
the trusts hereof in
consideration of the issue or transfer to my Trustees or their nominees of
any stock
shares debentures or other securities
(16) Power to exercise or to refrain from exercising (either themselves
or by proxy) the
rights attached to any investments subject to any of the trusts
hereof in any manner
whatsoever and in particular (without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing) to
wind up or dissolve or join in winding up or dissolving any company
or corporation and
to alter or join in altering any of those rights or any rights
attached to any other
investments or property
(17) Power upon or in any land and buildings which (or the net proceeds
of any sale of
which) are held upon any of the trusts hereof to carry on the
business (whether alone or
in partnership with any other person) of farming forestry fruit growing or
market
gardening or any other business of an agricultural horticultural or arboricultural
nature
and to employ therein all or any part or parts of any assets subject to the
same trusts
and to finance such business out of those trust assets with full power to engage
remunerate and dismiss any managers bailiffs servants and agents and to appoint
regulate and change their respective duties
(18) Power to put or leave any shares stocks securities insurance
policies or other
property whatsoever (including money) in the name or names of
any nominee or
nominees for my Trustees and to put or leave any movable chattels
and bearer or other
securities and certificates for safe keeping in the possession
or custody of any person or
persons without being responsible for any loss or damage and
on such terms and
subject to such conditions including remuneration of any such
nominee or custodian as
mv Trustees shall think fit and so that any such nominees or
custodians may be or
include any one or more of my Trustees
(19) Power to effect maintain and deal with any insurance or insurances
upon the life of
any person or of all or any assets subject to any trusts hereof
against any risk or risks
which my Trustees may consider proper to cover Provided (a) that
my Tnistees shall be
under no obligation to insure any such assets to their full value
or at all and (b) that my
Trustees may pay all premiums and other costs relating to insurance
out of the income
or the capital of any propertv held upon the same trusts under
this deed as such assets
and (c) that nothing in this paragraph shall authorise any accumulation
of income not
otherwise authorised by the Trusts
(20) Power to maintain repair improve and alter any chattels and to
take such steps as
they may consider proper for the presentation of any chattels
or other assets subject to
any trusts hereof
(21) Power to delegate all or any of their powers contained in this
Appendix and any
other administrative powers conferred by law (and all of the
duties and discretions of
my Trustees relating to the exercise of such powers) to any person or persons
subject
to such conditions (if any and including provisions as to remuneration) as
my Trustees
shall think fit (without being liable for the acts or defaults of any such
delegate) and to
revoke or modify any such delegation or conditions with the intent that without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing my Trustees may use this power
to delegate
any discretions or decisions which fall to be exercised or taken pursuant to
the terms of
any agreement entered into pursuant to subclause (28)(c) below
(22) Power to pay to the parent or guardian of any minor any money
intended to be
applied for the maintenance education benefit or advancement
of that minor and the
receipt of such parent or cuardian shall be a sufficient discharge
to my Trustees for any
such sum of money (and they shall not be bound to see or to inquire
into the actual
application thereof)
(23) Power to permit a beneficiary or beneficiaries hereunder to occupy
use or enjoy
personally:
(a) any movable property wherever situate
(b) any immovable property situate anywhere in the world other than
in
England and Wales which (or the future proceeds of sale of which)
may
for the time being be comprised in the Trust Fund and
(c) any immovable property situate in England and Wales which may
for
the time being subject to the Trust Fund and in respect of which no
beneficiary has a right to occupy under the provisions of Section 12 of the
Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 upon any terms or
conditions whatever which my Trustees may think fit.
(24) Power to lend any money with or without security to a beneficiary
or beneficiaries
hereunder with or without payment of interest and upon such terms
as to repayment
and otherwise in such manner in all respects as my Trustees shall
in their absolute
discretion think fit
(25) In respect of any chattels ("the Chattels") subject
to the Trusts:
(a) My Trustees shall have power to sell lease hire deposit store
or
otherwise deal with such chattels upon such terms as they shall
in their
absolute discretion think fit
(b) Trustees shall not be bound to see nor be liable or accountable
for
omitting or neglecting to see to the repair or insurance of the
Chattels but
may repair and insure such chattels in such manner and to such
extent as
thev shall in their absolute discretion think fit.
(c) My Trustees shall have power to apply for conditional exemption
from
inheritance tax under Chapter 11 of Part 11 of the Inheritance
Tax Act
1984 by making a claim for designation under section 31 of the
said Act
to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for that purpose and by
giving
such undertakings as may be required under section 31 of the
said Act.
(26) Power to permit any one or more of my Trustees to sign cheques
on any bank
account in the names of my Trustees and generally to sign orders
and authorities to any
bank on behalf of my Trustees
(27) My Trustees may enter into a transaction with, or exercise a
discretion which
benefits, another person or persons notwithstanding that one
or more of my Trustees
may have a fiduciary or personal interest ("an adverse interest")
in the transaction which
conflicts with his or her duties as a Trustee of my Will Provided that the
following
conditions are observed:
(a) any Trustee who has an adverse interest declares it to his or
her
co-Trustee as soon as practicable and thereafter ceases to participate
as
Trustee in negotiations and decision making relating to the transaction or
discretion
(b) there are at least two of my Trustees who do not have an adverse
interest and
c) the decision whether to enter into the transaction or exercise
the
discretion and if so on what terms is taken unanimously by those
Trustees
who do not have an adverse interest
(28) In relation to the Intellectual Property Rights
(a) power to apply for and pursue or authorise others to apply for
such
registrations or any appropriate official or administrative recognition
or
validation of any of the Intellectual Property Rights in any
country of the
world and to acquire for consideration the benefit of any such
registrations
or pending applications for such registrations made or being
pursued by
any third party and take such other protective action in any
part of the
world as they may think prudent to safeguard the interests of
the
beneficiaries whether financial or otherwise
(b) the reasonable costs of any legal proceedings in any jurisdiction
within
the scope of subparagraph (a) above or otherwise taken with a
view to
defending or enforcing the Intellectual Property Rights or seeking
an
injunction, compensation or other relief for their misuse shall
be deemed to
be expenses property incurred by my Trustees notwithstanding
that the
prior authorisation of the Court has not been obtained provided
that at all
times they act in reliance on appropriate legal advice given
by persons
qualified to advise in respect of the jurisdiction concerned
(c) power to enter into any licence or other form of agreement for
the
exploitation of any of the Intellectual Property Rights and upon
such terms
(including terms with retrospective effect) as could be entered
into by an
absolute beneficial owner of the Intellectual Property Rights
(29) The provisions of sections 11 19 and 20 of the Trusts of Land
and Appointment
of Trustees Act 1996 shall not apply to property subject to the
Trusts.
(30) Power in respect of any asset to deal (whether by sale exchange
purchase lease
mortgage loan borrowing or otherwise) with the trustees of any
property held on trusts
declared by this Will which are distinct from the trusts applying
to the asset in question
at such price rent or rate of interest or for such other consideration
and upon such
terms generally as they shall in their absolute discretion think
fit or approve
notwithstanding that one or some or all of them are among or
comprise the trustees with
whom they are dealing without being liable to account for any
profit Provided Always
that any such dealing shall be for full consideration and that
such consideration shall be
determined in reliance on appropriate advice given by persons
qualified to advise in
respect of the dealing.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
CH 1997 No W 6888
CHANCERY DIVISION
The Vice Chancellor Sir Richard Scott Chambers
19th day of December 1997
IN THE MATTER of the estate of Diana, Princess of Wales deceased
BETWEEN
(1) HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE WILLIAM ARTHUR PHILIP LOUIS of WALES
(a minor)
(2) HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HENRY CHARLES ALBERT DAVID of WALES
(a minor)
Plaintiffs
and
(1) THE HONOURABLE FRANCES RUTH SHAND KYDD
(2) THE HONOURABLE ELIZABETH SARAH LAVINIA McCORQUODALE
Defendants
ORDER
The Will of Diana, Princess of Wales
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
CHANCERY DIVISION
The Vice Chancellor Sir Richard Scott in Chambers
Friday the 19th day of December 1997
IN THE MATTER of the estate of Diana, Princess of Wales deceased
BETWEEN
(1) HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE WILLIAM ARTHUR PHILIP
LOUIS of WALES (a minor)
(2) HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HENRY CHARLES ALBERT
DAVID of WALES (a minor)
Plaintiffs
and
(1) THE HONOURABLE FRANCES RUTH SHAND KYDD
(2) THE HONOURABLE LADY ELIZABETH SARAH LAVINIA
McCORQUODALE
Defendants
ORDER
UPON the application of the Plaintiffs by Originating Summons
AND UPON HEARING Counsel for the Plaintiffs and for the Defendants
AND UPON READING the documents recorded on the Court File as having
been read
AND UPON the First Defendant by her Counsel consenting to the terms
of
this Order in her capacity as a person interested in the said estate by reason
of
a partial intestacy
AND UPON the First Defendant by her Counsel undertaking to join in
an
election to claim the benefit of section 142(1) of the Inheritance Tax Act
1984
and section 62(6) of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 for the terms
of the Arrangement in the Schedule to this Order in her capacity as a person
beneficially interested in the said estate
AND UPON the Court being satisfied that the terms of the Arrangement
(as
defined below) are for the benefit of the minor Plaintiffs
AND UPON the Court being of the opinion that sufficient cause is
shown
within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Judicial Trustee Act 1896 for the
appointment hereinafter made and that no security need be given in respect
of
that appointment
IT IS ORDERED as follows:
1. In this Order the following expressions bear the meaning hereby
assigned to
them:
"the Estate''
means the above recited estate
"the Will''
means the last Will of Diana, Princess of Wales
dated 1st' June 1993 as varied by a codicil
(''the Codicil") dated 1st February 1996
"the Executors"
means the Defendants and The Right Reverend
and Right Honourable Richard John Carew
Chartres, Bishop of London
"the arrangement"
means the Arrangement set out in the Schedule
to this Order
"the Intellectual Property
Rights"
means all of the following rights and interests
which are or may hereafter become rights or
interests owned by the Estate namely all
intellectual property rights and interests whether
legal equitable or otherwise in or relating to
such rights whether joint or sole including but
not limited to the following, namely:
(1) copyright in any literary artistic photographic or other work
film sound recording or matter of any nature whatsoever and
rights in or relating to any designs,
(2) performers' rights and related rights,
(3) trade or service marks and any goodwill, the rights to prevent
passing off and similar actionable representations and any like
right or interest, including rights to prevent or object to the
registration or use of any trade or service mark, name or other
sign, and the rights to prevent unfair competition.
(4) moral rights whether so called under the laws of the United
Kingdom or otherwise, rights of publicity, privacy or personality,
rights in or relating to the name, appearance, likeness, reputation,
voice or any other characteristic or feature of Diana Princess of
Wales,
(5) rights in or relating to any confidential information (whether
in
writing or not),
(6) rights to prevent any person from using or claiming any
interest in any sign, mark, name or other thing arising out of the
name, status or position of Diana, Princess of Wales,
(7) all rights similar, related to or equivalent to any of the above,
(8) all rights to take proceedings and any other action whatsoever
in respect of any intellectual property rights (including the rights
referred to in subparagraphs (1) to (7) above) and any accrued
rights of action,
in each case whether such rights or interests are registered or
unregistered, whether arising under the laws of the United
Kingdom or of any other country in the world, whether such
rights or interests exist or are created in the future and including
any renewals extensions or revivals of any such rights or interests
2. The Arrangement is approved on behalf of the Plaintiffs pursuant
to section
1 of the Variation of Trusts Act 1958.
3. The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Richard John Carew Chartres,
Bishop of London ("the Judicial Trustee") is appointed pursuant to
section 1(1)
of the Judicial Trustee Act 1896 to be an executor of the Will jointly with
the
Defendants.
4. Subject to further Order the Judicial Trustee shall be under no
obligation to
furnish annual accounts to the Court.
5. All the assets of the Estate presently vested in the Defendants
as executors
of the Will, or to the benefit of which they are presently or prospectively
entitled in that capacity shall vest in the Defendants and the Judicial Trustee
jointly to be held by them upon the trusts of the Will as varied by this Order
and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing this vesting order
shall
comprehend
(1) The right to sue for and recover any thing in action or any
interest in respect thereof including without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing all existing and future causes of action
and all other entitlements arising out of or in respect of the
Intellectual Property Rights
(2) The rights of the Defendants to assign, licence, sublicence,
grant rights to sue in respect of, make applications for, prosecute
the application for, register, oppose the registration by others of,
enforce, or otherwise deal with the Intellectual Property Rights in
any manner whatsoever
(3) The right to possession of all chattels
(4) The right to transfer all stock shares and other investments
and the right to receive all dividends and other income or capital
accruals in respect thereof.
6. The Defendants shall cause to be endorsed on the grant of Probate
of the
Will and Codicil, as and when granted, a Memorandum of this Order.
7. The Defendants are authorised and directed to elect to claim the
benefit of
section 142(1) of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 and section 62(6) of the
Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 for the terms of the Arrangement both
on their own behalf as executors and on behalf of the Plaintiffs.
8. All the costs incurred by the next friend of the Plaintiffs since
30th October
1997 in representing the Plaintiffs' interests in connection with the
administration of the estate, including the costs of and incidental to this
application (and including the costs incurred in the preparation and negotiation
of the Arrangement) shall be taxed on the indemnity basis unless agreed with
the Executors and paid out of the estate in the course of administration. The
hearing of this originating summons is certified fit for three Counsel for
the
Plaintiffs.
THE SCHEDULE
THE ARRANGEMENT
As from the date of this Order the Estate shall be administered and
the trusts of
the Will executed on the footing that the deceased died leaving a will and
codicil in the terms of the Will and Codicil but subject to the following
modifications to the Will.
Clauses 4 to 7 inclusive and Clause 10 and the Schedule to the Will
shall be
deleted and replaced by the following provisions. Clauses 8 and 9 of the Will
shall be renumbered 14 and 15
4.
(1) I bequeath to my butler Paul Burrell the sum of £50,000
free
of inheritance tax.
(2) I bequeath to my Executors jointly free of inheritance tax the
chattels described in Part I of Appendix I below to be held by
them upon trust within 12 months of the date of my death to
distribute all or such of the said chattels as they may in their
absolute discretion select among such one or more of my
Godchildren (whose names appear in Part II of Appendix I) as
my Executors may in their absolute discretion think fit.
(3) In the execution of the power conferred by sub-clause (2)
above my Executors shall be entitled to rely on the receipt of a
parent or guardian of any Godchild who is a minor.
(4) All expenses for the sate custody of and insurance incurred
prior to their distribution of the said chattels and for packing
transporting and insurance for the purposes of deliver to the
respective recipients of any chattels distributed shall be borne by
my residuary estate.
(5) Any of the chattels referred to in the previous subclause which
have nor been distributed within 12 months of the date of my
death shall be held by my Executors on the trusts of the Residuary
Fund, as defined below.
5.
(1) I bequeath to my Trustees (as defined below) free of
inheritance tax the assets described below as comprising the
Discretionary Fund to be held by them upon the trusts and with
and subject to the powers and provisions hereinafter declared.
(2) In this clause the following expressions bear the meanings
assigned to them below:
"my Trustees"
means the persons appointed by this Will or
any codicil thereto to be my Executors,
together with the Right Reverend and Right
Honourable Richard John Carew Chartres,
Bishop of London or other the trustee or
trustees from time to time of the Discretionary
Fund
"Charity"
means any trust or body corporate whose
objects are exclusively charitable according to
the law of England and Wales
"Charitable Object"
means any object exclusively charitable
according to the law of England and Wales
"The Intellectual Rights"
means all of the following rights or interests to
which I am or may become entitled or which
may accrue to my estate after my death
namely all intellectual property rights and
interests whether legal equitable or otherwise
in or relating to such rights whether joint or
sole including but not limited to the following
namely
(1) copyright in any literary
artistic photographic or other
work film sound recording or
matter of any nature whatsoever
and rights in or relating to all
designs,
(2) performers' rights and related
rights,
(3) trade or service marks and
any goodwill, the rights to
prevent passing off and similar
actionable representations and
any like right or interest,
including rights to prevent or
object to the registration or use
of any trade or service mark,
name or other sign, and the rights
to prevent unfair competition,
(4) moral rights whether so
called under the laws of the
United Kingdom or otherwise,
rights of publicity. privacy or
personality, rights in or relating to
my name, appearance, likeness,
reputation, voice or any other of
my characteristics or features
(5) rights in or relating to any
confidential information (whether
in writing or not),
(6) rights to prevent any person
from using or claiming any
interest in any sign, mark, name
or other thing arising out of my
name, status or position as
Diana, Princess of Wales,
(7) all rights similar, related to or
equivalent to any of the above,
(8) all rights to take proceedings
and any other action whatsoever
in respect of any intellectual
property rights (including the
rights referred to in
sub-paragraphs (1) to (7)
above) and any accrued rights of
action,
in each case whether such rights
or interests are registered or
unregistered, whether arising
under the laws of the United
Kingdom or of any other country
in the world, whether such rights
or interests exist or are created
in the future and including any
renewals extensions or revivals
of any such rights or interests
"The Discretionary Fund
Intellectual Property Rights"
means the Intellectual Property Rights with the
exception of any and all such rights or interests
in or relating to the following namely:
(i) chattels forming part of my
estate (excluding any works
which have already been
published at the date of my
death)
(ii) personal property which at
the date of my death is owned
legally equitably or otherwise by
either of my two sons, Prince
William, who was born on 21st
June l 982, and Prince Henry,
who was born on 15th
September 1984
(iii) the copyright and all other
intellectual property rights and
interests in my signature when
used as part of any document
created by me where that
document is comprised in (i) or
(ii) above
"The Discretionary Fund"
means
(i) the Discretionary Fund
Intellectual Property Rights
(ii) all my wearing apparel
(iii) the sum of £100,000
(iv) any accumulations of income
of the Discretionary Fund
(v) any money or investments
from time to time representing
the foregoing items
"The Discretionary
Beneficiaries"
means
(i) my two sons, Prince William,
who was born on 21st June
1982, and Prince Henry, who
was born on l5th September
1984
(ii) the children and remoter
issue, spouses and former
spouses of my two sons and
(iii) such Charities and Charitable
Objects as my Trustees from
time to time select
"The Perpetuity Period"
means the period commencing with the date of
my death and expiring 21 years after the death
of the last surviving descendant of his late
Majesty King George VI living at the date of
my death
(3) During the Perpetuity Period my Trustees shall apply the income
of the
Discretionary Fund and may pay or apply any part of parts of the capital
thereof to or for the benefit of all or such one or more to the exclusion of
the
other or others of the Discretionary Beneficiaries if more than one in such
shares and in such manner generally as they shall in their absolute discretion
think fit.
(4) During the period of twenty-one years from the date of my death
my
Trustees shall have power instead of paying or applying the income of the
Discretionary Fund in accordance with the preceding clause to accumulate it,
and all such accumulations shall be treated as accretions to the capital of
the
Discretionary Fund for all purposes.
(5) Without prejudice to any prior payment or application of income
or capital
my Trustees shall have power at any time or times during the Perpetuity Period
by deed or deeds revocable or irrevocable to appoint that the capital and
income of the Discretionary Fund or any part thereof shall be held upon with
and subject to such trusts powers and provisions in favour or for the benefit
of
all or such one or more to the exclusion of the other or others of the
Discretionary Beneficiaries if more than one in such shares and in such manner
generally as my Trustees may in their absolute discretion think fit And so
that
without prejudice to the generality of this power my Trustees may in the
exercise thereof and subject to the rules against remoteness
(a) create or delegate powers and discretions over capital or income
(including
powers of further delegation) whether of a dispositive or administrative nature
and whether exercisable by my Trustees or any other person or persons in the
same unrestricted manner as if they were absolute beneficial owners of the
property thereby appointed; and
(b) transfer all or any part of the capital or income of the Discretionary
Fund to
the trustees of any other trust or settlement under which the settled property
subject thereto is held on trusts for the benefit of all or any one or more
of the
Discretionary Beneficiaries.
(6) Subject to the exercise of the foregoing powers my Trustees shall
hold the
Discretionary Fund at the expiry of the Perpetuity Period on trust for Prince
William and Prince Henry, in equal shares absolutely.
(7) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by
sub-clauses
(3) and (5) above my Trustees may, with a view to applying some or all of the
Discretionary Fund Intellectual Property Rights or the income therefrom for
the
benefit of a Charity, exercise the powers conferred on them by paragraph (28)
of Appendix II below by entering into arrangements with the Charity in
question, or with some other Charity, under the terms of which the
Discretionary Fund Intellectual Property Rights subject to the arrangement
can
be exploited for the benefit of the Charity intended to benefit on terms such
that
the Discretionary Fund receives either no consideration or a consideration
less
than the full consideration obtainable having regard to the value or the benefit
of
the arrangement to the Charity in question.
(8) In the execution of the foregoing trusts my Trustees shall, in
addition to any
powers conferred on them by the general law, have the benefit of the powers
and immunities set out in Appendix II below Provided Always that none of the
said powers shall be capable of being exercised in such a way as would be in
any way inconsistent with the beneficial trusts from time to time subsisting
in
respect of the Discretionary Fund
(9) My Trustees (being not less than two in number or a trust corporation)
may
at any time or times before the expiry of the Perpetuity Period by deed
extinguish (or restrict the future exercise of) all or any of the powers contained
in this clause 5 and all or any of the additional powers (but not any of the
restrictions applicable thereto) contained in Appendix II
6. I give all my property not hereby or by any codicil hereto otherwise
effectively disposed of to my Executors to hold on trust to sell call in and
convert the same into money (so far as not already consisting of money) with
power to postpone the sale calling in and conversion thereof (even as regards
property of a terminable hazardous or wasting nature) in the absolute discretion
of my Executors without being liable for loss and to hold the net proceeds
and
my ready money upon the following trusts:
(1) Upon trust to pay thereout (in exoneration of any property
which would otherwise be liable for payment of the same) all
funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and any general
legacies given by this Will or any Codicil hereto and any tax or
duty arising in respect of my death (even if not a testamentary
expense) on all gifts in this Will and any Codicil hereto given free
of such tax or duty
(2) Upon trust if necessary to invest the remainder after such
payment in or upon any investments authorised by the provisions
of Appendix II below
(3) Upon trust to stand possessed of such investments and such
of my estate as remains for the time being unsold and my ready
money and all property from time to time representing the same
(hereinafter referred to as "my Residuary Estate") upon trust for
my Trustees, to be held by them on the trusts declared by clause
8 below.
7. In the event of the assets subject to clause 6 above being insufficient
to meet
all of the liabilities referred to in clause 6(1) the settled legacy on the
trusts of
the Discretionary Fund made by clause 5 above shall abate in priority to and
in
exoneration of the legacies given by clause 4 above.
8. (1) In this clause the following expressions bear the meanings
assigned to
them below:
"my Trustees"
means the persons appointed by this Will or any
codicil thereto to be my Executors, together with
The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Richard
John Carew Chartres, Bishop of London or other
the trustee or trustees from time to time of the
Residuary Fund (and where separate trustees have
been appointed of the Principal Beneficiaries'
shares or presumptive shares in the Residuary Fund
"my Trustees" shall refer to each body of separate
trustees)
"The Residuary Fund"
means
(i) my Residuary Estate
(ii) any accumulations of income made
pursuant to the trusts declared below
(iii) any money or investments from
time to time representing the foregoing
items
"The Principal
Beneficiaries"
means Prince William and Prince Henry
"The Perpetuity Period"
means the period commencing with the date of my
death and expiring 21 years after the death of the
last surviving descendant of his late Majesty King
George VI living at the date of my death
(2) My Trustees shall hold the Residuary Fund and the income thereof
upon
trust for such of the Principal Beneficiaries as shall either:
(a) attain the age of 25 years or
(b) die under the age of 25 years leaving a child or children living
(or en ventre sa mere) at his death
and if more than one in such shares as my Trustees (being at least
two in
number or a trust corporation) shall by any deed or deeds revocable or
irrevocable executed so as to comply with sub-clause (3)(c) below appoint
and until and subject to and in default of any such appointment in equal shares.
(3) Subject to sub-clause (c) of this sub-clause any appointment
made in
exercise of the power conferred by sub-clause (2) above:
(a) may provide for any share or shares in the Residuary Fund to
be ascertained either by reference to a fraction or fractions of the
Residuary Fund or by reference to any sum or sums of money or
by reference to (or to the value of) any specific assets then
forming part of the Residuary Fund and
(b) may (if my Trustees think fit) expressly provide that the whole
or any part or parts of the accumulations of income then forming
part of the presumptive share of one Principal Beneficiary in the
Residuary Fund shall thereafter go and accrue to and form part of
the presumptive share of the other Principal Beneficiary in the
Residuary Fund But in default of any such express provision all
such accumulations of income shall continue to belong to the
presumptive share to which they solely belonged immediately
prior to such appointment
(c) No appointment in exercise of the power conferred by
sub-clause (2) of this clause shall be made and no such
appointment shall be revoked either:
(i) so as either to diminish or to increase the share
(or the accumulations of income forming part of the
share) of or give a new share (or new accumulations
of income) to a Principal Beneficiary who at the date
of such appointment or revocation has attained the
age of 25 years or has died under that age leaving a
child or children living (or en ventre sa mere) at his
death or
(ii) so as to diminish the share (or the accumulations
of income forming part of the share) of a Principal
Beneficiary who is under the age of 18 years, or,
without his prior consent in writing, the share of a
Principal Beneficiary who has attained that age.
(d) My Trustees (being, at least two in number or a trust
corporation) may at any time or times by deed or deeds
extinguish (or restrict the future exercise of) the said power of
appointment conferred by sub-clause (2) hereof
(e) The provisions of sub-clause (5) below are applicable (in the
manner therein mentioned) to the share in the Residuary Fund of
each Principal Beneficiary who attains a vested interest under
sub-clause (2) above.
(4) The foregoing trusts shall carry the intermediate income and
the following
provisions relating to maintenance and accumulation shall apply to the income
of the presumptive share for the time being of each Principal Beneficiary who
is
alive and under the age of 25 years namely:
(a) my Trustees shall have power to pay or apply the whole or
such part (if any) of such income as my Trustees in their absolute
discretion shall think fit for or towards the maintenance or
otherwise for the benefit of the Principal Beneficiary in question
and
(b) shall accumulate the balance (if any) of the same income at
compound interest by investing the same and the resulting income
thereof in any of the investments authorised by this Will and shall
add such accumulations as an accretion to (and as one fund for all
purposes with) the presumptive share in the capital of the
Residuary Fund of the Principal Beneficiary in question Provided
Always that my Trustees may while a Principal Beneficiary is alive
and under the age of 25 years apply such accumulations of
income to the extent of his presumptive share in them (or any part
thereof) as if they were income arising in the then current year
from the presumptive share of that Principal Beneficiary in the
Residuary Fund
(5) The share in the Residuary Fund of each Principal Beneficiary
(whether
under any exercise of the power of appointment herein contained or in default
of appointment) shall not vest in him absolutely if he shall attain the age
of 25
years or shall die under that age leaving a child or children living (or en
ventre
sa mere) at his death (as the case may be) but on and after the attainment
of
such age or on and after such death (as the case may be) such share shall be
retained by my Trustees upon and with and subject to the following trusts
powers and provisions or (in particular where the Principal Beneficiary has
died as aforesaid) such of the same as are capable of taking effect namely:
(a) The share of each Principal Beneficiary shall be held upon
trust to pay the income thereof to such Principal Beneficiary
during his life
(b) Each Principal Beneficiary shall after he has attained the age
of 25 years have power (due regard being had to the law
concerning remoteness) to appoint by any deed or deeds
revocable or irrevocable or by will or codicil to or for the benefit
of his widow an interest in the whole or any part of the income of
his share during the remainder of the life of such widow (whether
or not such widow shall have remarried) or for any less period
and any such appointment may be made upon protective trusts or
otherwise for the benefit of such widow and subject to any
conditions which such Principal Beneficiary may think proper
(c) Subject as hereinbefore provided in this clause the share of
each Principal Beneficiary shall be held (both as to the capital and
income) upon with and subject to such trusts powers and
provisions in favour or for the benefit of all or such one or more
to the exclusion of the other or others of the children or remoter
issue of the Principal Beneficiary and if more than one in such
shares and in such manner generally as the Principal Beneficiary
may by deed or deeds revocable or irrevocable or by will or
codicil in his absolute discretion appoint And so that without
prejudice to the generality of this power he may in the exercise
thereof and subject to the rules against remoteness
(i) create or delegate powers and discretions over
capital or income (including powers of further
delegation) whether of a dispositive or administrative
nature and whether exercisable by my Trustees or
any other person or persons in the same unrestricted
manner as if he was the absolute beneficial owner of
the property thereby appointed and
(ii) transfer all or any part of the capital or income
subject to the appointment to the trustees of any
other trust or settlement under which the settled
property subject thereto is held on trusts for the
benefit of all or any one or more of the said children
or remoter issue
(d) Subject as hereinbefore provided in this clause the share of
each Principal Beneficiary shall be held (both as to capital and
income) upon trust for all or any of the children or child of the
Principal Beneficiary as shall attain the age of 21 years and if
more than one in equal shares absolutely Provided that no child of
the Principal Beneficiary who or whose issue shall take any part
of the share of the Principal Beneficiary under an appointment by
virtue of the power last hereinbefore conferred shall in default of
appointment to the contrary be entitled to any share of the
unappointed part thereof without bringing the part or parts
appointed to him or to his issue into hotchpot and accounting for
the same accordingly
(e) The trust contained in sub-clause (d) hereof shall (subject to
the preceding trusts powers and provisions of this Will) carry the
intermediate income and the statutory powers of maintenance
accumulation and advancement contained in Sections 31 and 32
of the Trustee Act 1925 shall apply thereto but with the following
modifications:
(i) in the case of the said Section 31 with the
substitution in sub-section (1)(i) thereof of "the
trustees in their absolute discretion think fit" for "may
in all the circumstances be reasonable" and the
omission of the provision to sub-section (1)
(ii) in the case of the said Section 32 the omission of
the words "one-half of" from proviso (a) to
sub-section (1) and the omission of sub-section (2)
Provided always that any capital which is applied for
the benefit of a beneficiary under the said section 32
at any time before such beneficiary has an interest in
possession in that capital shall not be capable of
being applied in any manner inconsistent with the
requirements of conditions (a) and (b) of Section
71(1) of the Inheritance Tax .Act 1984 (or any
statutory modification or re-enactment thereof)
(6)
(a) Notwithstanding the trusts powers and provisions herein
before contained (but subject as provided in sub-clause (b) of this
sub-clause) my Trustees may at any time or times during the
lifetime of a Principal Beneficiary pay or transfer to or apply for
the benefit of such Principal Beneficiary the whole or any part of
the capital of his share or presumptive share in the Residuary
Fund freed and discharged from all the trusts powers and
provisions of this Will (and so that any capital so paid or
transferred or applied shall be brought into account at its value at
the date of payment transfer or application in any division of the
Residuary Fund into shares) Provided always that any capital
which is applied for the benefit of a Principal Beneficiary under
the foregoing power at any time before such Principal Beneficiary
has attained the age of 25 years shall not be capable of being
applied in any manner inconsistent with the requirements of
conditions (a) and (b) of Section 71(1) of the Inheritance Tax Act
1984 (or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof) and
(b) My Trustees (being at least two in number or a trust
corporation) may at any time or times after a Principal Beneficiary
has attained the age of 18 years and with his consent in writing by
deed or deeds extinguish (or restrict the future exercise of) the
power conferred by sub-clause (a) of this sub-clause so far as it
affects or is capable of affecting the share or presumptive share in
the Residuary Fund of that Principal Beneficiary
(c) After a Principal Beneficiary has attained the age of 30 years
my Trustees shall be bound in the exercise or non-exercise of the
power conferred by sub-clause (a) above to comply with his
wishes from time to time communicated to them in writing unless
my Trustees are satisfied that there is some exceptional reason
why it is in the Principal Beneficiary's interests that his wishes
should not be complied with (the Principal Beneficiary being
entitled to be supplied with written reasons for that conclusion)
(d) No power of advancement shall apply to the trusts declared
by sub-clause (2) above other than that contained in this
sub-clause.
(7) Subject to the trusts powers and provisions engrafted thereon
by
sub-clause (5) above and subject also to sub-clause (6) hereof the share in
the
Residuary Fund (whether under any exercise of the power of appointment
contained in sub-clause (2) hereof or in default of appointment) of each
Principal Beneficiary who attains the age of 25 years or who has died under
the
age of 25 years leaving a child or children living or en ventre sa mere at
his
death (as the case may be) if and so far as not disposed of by such engrafted
trusts powers and provisions or previously paid or applied (except merely by
accumulation) thereunder or under sub-clause (6) above shall:
(a) go and accrue for all purposes to the share (whether
presumptive or vested) of the other Principal Beneficiary if the
trusts thereof are then subsisting (including any share to which any
person or persons is or are then entitled absolutely) and
(b) be held upon the trusts and with and subject to the powers
and provisions herein contained concerning the original share of
that other Principal Beneficiary
(8) In the event of the failure in whole or in part of any of the
foregoing trusts
my Trustees shall have power during the Perpetuity Period to pay or apply all
or part of the Residuary Fund, or that part the trusts of which have failed,
and
the income thereof, to or for the benefit of all or such one or more of the
following, class of beneficiaries and in such shares, if more than one, as
they
shall in their absolute discretion think fit namely:
(a) such of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II her children and
remoter issue as are living at the date of the failure of the trusts in
question
(b) such of the children and remoter issue of the late Edward John
8th Earl Spencer as are living at the date of the failure of the trusts
in question
(c) any Charity then in existence and subject to any exercise of
the foregoing power the capital and income of the Residuary
Fund shall be held upon trust for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
absolutely
(9) In the execution of the foregoing trusts my Trustees shall, in
addition to any
powers conferred on them by the general law, have the benefit of the powers
and immunities set out in Appendix II below Provided always that none of the
said powers shall be capable of being exercised in such a way as:
(a) would be in any way inconsistent with the beneficial trusts
from time to time subsisting in respect of the Residuary Fund
(b) would or might present an interest in possession of any
beneficiary from subsisting or continuing to subsist in the whole or
any part of the Residuary Fund in any case where such an interest
otherwise would subsist or continue to subsist or
(c) would prevent Section 71 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (or
any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof) from applying
in respect of the whole or any part of the Residuary Fund in any
case where that section (or modification or re-enactment thereof
otherwise would so apply
(10) My Trustees (being not less than two in number or a trust corporation)
may at any time or times before the expiry of the Perpetuity Period deed
extinguish (or restrict the future exercise of all or any of the additional
powers
(but not any of the restrictions applicable thereto) contained in Appendix
II
9. In the administration of my estate and in the execution of the
trusts declared
by this Will:
(1) all income shall be treated as accruing on the date on which
it
becomes payable regardless of the period in respect of which it
shall have accrued and it shall not be the subject of any statutory
apportionment and
(2) the equitable rules of apportionment between capital and
income shall not apply in any circumstances whatever and in
particular shall not apply to any assets in respect of which my
trustees have not made any deliberate decision to postpone the
sale thereof.
10. The powers conferred on my Trustees by clauses 5 and 8 (including
the
powers set out in .Appendix II hereto) above may be exercised by them at any
time after the date of my death notwithstanding that no grant of probate has
then been obtained or that the administration of my estate has not then been
completed.
11. In the professed administration of my estate and in the professed
execution
of the trusts of this Will none of my Executors or Trustees shall be liable
for any
act or omission of his or for any act or omission of any co-Executor or
co-Trustee of his or for any agent employed in the administration of my estate
or the execution of the said trusts save for any act or omission involving
wilful
fraud or dishonesty committed by the Executor or Trustee sought to be made
liable.
12. Any of my Executors or Trustees who shall be an individual engaged
or
employed in any profession or business either alone or in partnership shall
be
entitled to charge and be paid and to retain all professional or other proper
charges for any business done or time spent or services rendered by him or
his
firm (whether or not within the usual scope of his profession or business and
even if not of a nature requiring the employment of a professional or business
person) in connection with the administration of my estate or with the trusts
powers and provisions of this will and shall also be entitled to retain any
share
of brokerage or commission paid to him or his firm by any broker agent or
insurance office in connection with any acquisition of or dealing with any
investments or property or the effecting or payment of any premium on any
policy of insurance subject or intended to become subject to the trusts hereof
or any such assurance.
13.
(1) Subject to sub-clause (4) below the statutory power of
appointing new or additional trustees of my Will shall be vested in
my Trustees.
(2) In the exercise of the said power my Trustees may appoint
separate trustees of the Discretionary Fund and/or the Residuary
Fund, and within the Residuary Fund they may appoint separate
trustees (who may include one or more of themselves) of the
share or presumptive share of each Principal Beneficiary.
(3) In the event of separate trustees of part only of the property
subject to the trusts of this Will being appointed, the statutory
power of appointing new or additional trustees of the trusts
affecting that part of such property shall, subject to sub-clause (4)
below, thenceforth be vested in the trustees from time to time of
that part.
(4) After he has attained the age of 30 years:
(a) the power of appointing new or additional
separate trustees of a Principal Beneficiary's share
of the Residuary Fund shall be vested in that
Principal Beneficiary; and
(b) that Principal Beneficiary shall have power by
written notice to the persons who are for the time
being the trustees of that Principal Beneficiary's
share of the Residuary Fund to require all or any
one or more of them to retire from the trusteeship of
that share and, subject to the consent of such
persons, each person so required to retire shall at
the request of the Principal Beneficiary execute an
appropriate deed of retirement or an appropriate
deed appointing a new trustee or new trustees of
that share;
Provided that if no separate trustees of that Principal Beneficiary's
share have
previously been appointed the making of any appointment under this power
shall take effect as if immediately before it came into effect my Trustees
had
appointed themselves separate trustees of that share pursuant to sub-clause
(2)
above
(5) The consent of the trustees of a Principal Beneficiary's share
of the
Residuary Fund to an exercise of the Principal Beneficiary's foregoing power
shall not be withheld unless those trustees are satisfied that there is some
exceptional reason why, in the Principal Beneficiary's interests, his appointment
should not be consented to (the Principal Beneficiary being entitled to be
supplied with written reasons for that conclusion).
(6) The requirement for the trustees consent provided for in sub-clause
(4)
above shall not prejudice the trustees right to object to the validity or propriety
of any attempted appointment by the Principal Beneficiary on any other ground
open to them under the general law.
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