A businesswoman is locked in a bitter inheritance fight over the family jewels after her wealthy aunt left her £6million fortune to an ex-British Airways air steward she met on a cruise.
Julia Titcombe, 46, says her rich and unconventional aunt Patricia Thompson promised her treasured £150,000 jewellery collection to her in a Skype call before she died.
But when globetrotting multimillionaire Ms Thompson died in Monte Carlo in February 2015, she left her entire £6million estate to former senior purser, Neil Ison, 54, whom she had befriended on a cruise ship holiday years earlier.
That included her precious 31-piece jewellery collection, acquired during her years of travelling to exotic places.