Kirstie Allsopp’s dad left staggering amount to Location, Location, Location star in his will after death aged 83
KIRSTIE Allsopp’s dad left a staggering amount to the Location, Location, Location star in his will after his death aged 83.
Lord Charles Hindlip, 83, died in June at his home in Dorset, leaving an estate of £6,113,334, reduced to £6,080,843 after his bills were settled.
He had planned to leave everything to his wife Fiona Lady Hindlip, but as she died before him, his four children will share his fortune.
TV star Kirstie is set to inherit a whopping £1.5m share of her dad’s estate.
Lord Charles was born at Haslbech Hall in Northamptonshire, and went to school at Eton before joining the Coldstream Guards.
Later he joined auctioneers Christie’s, and became chairman of Christie’s International between 1996 and 2002.
He was known as Charles Allsopp throughout his working life, and sold one of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings in 1987.
He started the bidding at £5million and eventually banging down the gavel at £24,750,000.
Ten years later, he sold 79 dresses belonging to Diana, Princess of Wales, in New York.
The auction raised more than $3million (£2.3million) for cancer and Aids charities.
When his father died, he inherited the title of the Sixth Baron Hindlip.
He served as a Conservative member of the House of Lords before his seat was abolished.
In 2016 his book, An Auctioneer’s Lot; triumphs and disasters at Christie’s, was published.
Charles and his wife Fiona spent more than 20 years restoring their Dorset home Lyddon House before her death from breast cancer in 2014, aged 66.
The five-bedroomed house, set in 48 acres, had its own swimming pool.
Lady Hindlip, a childhood friend of Queen Camilla, wanted to be buried in her own garden.
She arranged for her grave to be dug while she was still alive, close to the final resting place of her beloved pony Benji.
Charles left his paintings of Lady Emily Berkeley by Sir Thomas Lawrence and a pair of pictures of the Cateret family to his son Henry.
Kirstie, 54, Henry, 52, Sophie, 44, and Natasha Allsopp, 38, will share the rest of his estate between them.