Son left ‘traumatised and needing therapy’ after dad cut him out of £85MILLION family fortune when they ‘fell out’
A SON has been left "traumatised and needing therapy" after a row with his dad cut him out of the £85million family fortune.
William Seymour, the Earl of Yarmouth, has been embroiled in a public feud with his parents since 2018.
As the oldest son, William believed he would inherit the 400-year-old Ragley Hall in Warwickshire.
The 6,500-acre estate includes a 110-room mansion, farms, a sprawling woods, and hundreds of acres of parkland.
It has been in the Seymour Family for about 400 years, descendant from Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife.
But the young Lord's hopes were quickly dashed in March 2018 when his dad said he would not be handing his estate over to his son on his thirtieth birthday, as expected.
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The fall-out has now been taken to the High Court where it was revealed the young Lord has started counselling to deal with the blow.
He said he had never received an explanation for his parents' decision, which has greatly affected his "position, circumstances, and needs", reports The Telegraph.
Lord Hertford, 66, put this down to a crumbling relationship with his son, which started when he tried to "assert" himself in the estate's financial matters.
The court heard that William, who was worth £4million at 21, had not been interested in the estate until he met his wife Kelsey.
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After their marriage, William began complaining about how the estate was being run and argued his wife was being shown "disrespect" for not being invited to the trustee meeting.
Lord Hertford says their relationship further deteriorated when his son sent "hostile and inflammatory" emails to his marchioness mum Beatriz, Lady Hertford.
The emails questioned his dad's "mental capacity" for running the estate, which the parents say caused "enormous upset and anger".
William is now trying to have the trust companies removed and replaced with independent professional trustees.
His barrister told the court that Lord Yarmouth had done “many things which on any basis would make the trustees cautious in their dealings with him”.
In response, Lord Yarmouth’s barrister, Paul Burton, said: “This is not a family dispute. This is a claim against the trustees for their removal.
“That the relationship of trust and confidence between the claimant and the trustees has irretrievably broken down is beyond argument.
“There is no prospect of these outstanding matters being resolved while the trustees are in office.”
The judge will give his ruling at a later date.
This comes as the family of a 70s music star are in a £1 million inheritance battle after he cut his wife out of the will and gave his daughter everything.
Freddy Wieland died six years ago, aged 75, leaving behind his ex-wife Karen and their daughter Amber.
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After battling cancer, the guitarist behind the Seventies one-hit wonder The Pushbike Song, left everything to his two daughters from a previous relationship.
Jasmine and Jade Wieland were named as the main beneficiaries, sowing the seeds of an inheritance battle as the two branches of his family battle it out in court for possession of his estate.
