{"id":654201,"date":"2026-06-23T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:09","slug":"dame-jilly-cooper-leaves-8-5m-fortune-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654201\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Jilly Cooper leaves \u00a38.5m fortune to children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The late author Dame Jilly Cooper has left her children with an \u00a38.5m fortune following her death at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dame Jilly, who was known for her &#8220;bonkbuster&#8221; novels, including Riders, Rivals and Polo, died on 5 October last year after she suffered a head injury in a fall at her home in Bisley, Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Probate records show she left a gross estate of \u00a39,070,307 with a net value of \u00a38,557,118 and her beneficiaries were her children Felix and Emily and stepdaughter Laura, all of whom will receive an equal share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the signatories on the documents was a professional polo player &#8211; apt given that Dame Jilly was known for writing about polo-playing members of the aristocracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late author Dame Jilly Cooper has left her children with an \u00a38.5m fortune following her death at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}