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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