| 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 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 )
Part 2
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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