My friend always told me she was going to leave me her ring in her will. I worked for her as second secretary to Bill Cotton in 1974, and we kept in touch for forty years. She didn't want to have visitors once she was housebound, but was OK as she had a good friend that looked in on her every day.
I didn't get a Christmas card and rang and rang her to see what was happening. She had never married or had children, and to my knowledge, did not have any relatives.
A few months later a 'relative' advertised the fact my friend had died in the BBC pensioner's magazine and I wrote asking them to forward my contact details to her. It appears that my friend's address book was 'too difficult to read' and no-one was informed when she died. She was cremated and apparently just scattered in the daffodils, not even a headstone.
I was very suspicious of this relative, and so angry that my friend died without anyone being told that I actually got a copy of her will - it seems this relative took a solicitor to her bedside in hospital, and on a scrappy piece of paper, 'all previous wills are revoked'.
It still makes me extremely sad that my friend, who often cried on the phone to me because all of her friends had died (she was 90), was treated like this.
Important to let everyone know your wishes whilst you are here, and give now if you can.
Angela Rayner lashes out and calls Sunak “pint sized loser”.
Parents-in-Law. What do/did you call them?