Legendary Sun astrologer Mystic Meg left £1.3m in her will – with cash going to care for horses and family
LEGENDARY Sun astrologer Mystic Meg left a £1.3 million fortune in her will – with cash going to care for horses and being shared between family and friends.
The nation’s favourite horoscope expert died last March aged 80 after being admitted to hospital with flu.
Meg – real name Margaret Lake – lived in a three-bedroom flat in Notting Hill, west London and kept cats and had a famed love of horses.
She left £100,000 in her will for the care of horses that she owned at the time of her death.
Meg was known to study the Racing Post each morning, and at one time owned several racehorses with celestial names including Astradonna, Astroangel and Astronova.
After the bill for the care of her horses is settled, the rest of her fortune is set to be split 50/50.
Half will be paid to her half-sister Dorothy who lives in Scotland.
Meg stated in her will – drawn up in 2020 – that the other share of her fortune should be passed on to her friend Janine Palmer, of, south-east London.
Mystic Meg, who had an army of loyal readers at The Sun was also famous for her TV spot on the National Lottery draw, which drew 20 million viewers when it launched in 1994.
She was born in Accrington, Lances in July 1942, and always said she inherited her psychic powers from a great-grandmother.
One of her most famous predictions came after Princess Diana gave birth to Prince William in 1982. She said “Princess Diana would have a second child, a boy, in 1984 and he would be trouble.”
She also helped readers win fortunes, including Tom Naylor who scooped £15 million on the Lottery after following a tip from Meg.
Meg started working as a sub-editor on a woman’s magazine, before moving to the News of the World as a sub and then becoming the paper’s regular astrologer.
From there, Meg moved to The Sun, and readers followed her daily horoscopes for 23 years until her death.
Her column is still running, after being taken over by Meg’s friend and protégé, Maggie Innes.
Meg, a clean-living vegan, never married but did fall in love with millionaire Nigel Moores, brother of the late football executive David Moores. Tragically, Nigel died in 1977 in a car crash in the South of France.
Her long-term agent Dave Shapland, said after her death: “There was never another man in her life.
“She gave the impression of being a recluse, living on her own with her crystal ball and seven cats for company. That was the reality. She was a very private person.”
After Meg died, Sun Editor-in-Chief Victoria Newton said: “We have lost an icon. We loved her and so did our readers.
“She was a true professional whose guidance helped people daily.”