LOCATION Location Location star Kirstie Allsopp is set to inherit £1.5m after her dad died early this year.
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.
He 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, starting the bidding at £5 million 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, raising more than $3 million for cancer and Aids charities.
When his father died, he inherited the title of the Sixth Baron Hindlip, and was 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 wife Fiona had spent more than 20 years restoring their home Lyddon House at Kings Stag, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, before her death from breast cancer in 2014, aged 66.
The five-bedroomed house, set in 48 acres, had its own swimming pool and 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 picture of the Cateret family to his son Henry for his lifetime.
Kirstie, 54, Henry, 52, Sophie, 44, and Natasha Allsopp, 38, will share the rest of his estate between them.
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