The widow of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has left more than £18m in her will.
Shirley Watts, who died 16 months after him, left a fortune to her family.
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Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’ ex-wife Shirley left more than £18m in her will Credit: Rex
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Charlie – pictured above right with the rest of The Rolling Stones – died in August 2021 aged 80Credit: Getty
In her will, published yesterday, she left an estate valued at £18.3 million, which she left in trust for her immediate family.
Beneficiaries named were her daughter Seraphina, granddaughter Charlotte and brother Stephen Shepherd.
Seraphina also gets her parents’ luxury apartment in the south of France.
Two of her employees, Carol Marner and Sharon Bentley, will also receive a tax-free payment of two years’ salary.
Shirley met Charlie in 1961, before the Stones were formed, at London’s Royal College of Art, where she studied sculpture and he studied graphic design.
They were married for 57 years – with Shirley known for keeping Charlie down to earth.
She became a horse breeder, running a world-renowned stud from their castle in Devon.
She died at the age of 84 last December.
Charlie, 80, passed away in August 2021.
After Charlie died, Mick Jagger said: “It seems like only yesterday I was in the studio with Charlie, goofing around.
“It’s just so weird and very sad.
“And I mean, it’s such a long time to work with someone like that, and you get to know someone so well and their quirks and their quirks and they know yours.
“And there’s a language in communicating with musicians, obviously, or whatever.
“So you’re talking about it.
“It’s hard to talk about music.
“But so, after so much time, you have this ease of communication, so to speak, with another musician.
“It is very rare. I miss that a lot.”
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