Princess Diana’s will did not leave her entire estate to a single surprise heir, but the way her assets were structured has kept her legacy powerfully focused on one core priority: her sons.
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Legal records and later analyses show that, after tax and specific gifts, the residuary of Diana’s estate was divided equally between Prince William and Prince Harry via a trust, with both princes becoming the ultimate primary beneficiaries as adults.
Her estate was valued at around £21 million before inheritance tax, with roughly £12–13 million remaining after tax and expenses. That wealth—along with royalties from authorized use of her image and intellectual property—was placed into long‑term arrangements to support William and Harry, their future families, and selected charities she championed. Smaller, specific bequests went to others: about £50,000 to her butler Paul Burrell, keepsakes and personal effects to her 17 godchildren, and certain items held in a discretionary trust.
Separately, Diana’s childhood home, Althorp, is not part of a personal “Diana estate” that she could will away; it is an ancestral Spencer family property that follows traditional primogeniture and passes through the Earls Spencer. That is why Althorp is set to go to her nephew Louis, Viscount Althorp, rather than to William or Harry.
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