FANTASY author Sir Terry Pratchett left £11 million in his will, The Sun can
reveal.
The Discworld genius died aged 66 in March 2015, eight years after being
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
He sold more than 70 million books worldwide and famously dubbed his dementia
an “embuggerance”.
Sir Terry, who once described writing as “the most fun you can have with
you clothes on”, left a detailed 15-page will.
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But his legacy, which amounted to £11.4 million after tax, was far less than
the £42 million some experts claimed he had made from his 40-book Discworld
series.
Sir Terry’s will put the sum into a trust run by his widow, Lady Lyn, 72, and
the Queen’s bankers, Coutts.
It will pay Lady Lyn an income during her lifetime and also benefit the
couple’s daughter Rhianna, 39, and her children.
The author, one of biggest-selling British writers in history, also left his
£1.5 million manor house and its farmland in Broade Chalke, Wilts, to his
family.
Ex-newspaper reporter Sir Terry was knighted in 2009, two years after his
Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
He campaigned tirelessly for dementia research and for assisted dying.
His passing was announced to his army of fans on Twitter, in a tweet written
as if by Death, a character in his books who leads others into the
afterlife.
It read: “At last, Sir Terry, we must walk together.”
Close pal Rob Wilkins quickly responded: “Terry took Death’s arm and
followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless
night. The End.”
Sir Terry, who once branded the UK’s policy on euthanasia “appalling”,
made a $1 million donation to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust before his
death.
His fans responded by launching a “Match it for Pratchett” web
fundraising drive.