There has been a collective gasp of surprise that Princess Diana’s aunt, Mary Roche, left a relatively small estate of £425,983 when her will was published this week. Ten months after the aristocrat’s death in March 2023, aged 88, the implication is that Roche somehow suffered a financial fall from grace.
A signed first edition copy of James Bond novel Casino Royale is tipped to sell for £95,000.
Author Ian Fleming gave it to Anthony Kemsley whose father, his former boss Viscount Kemsley, had allowed him time off to write.
The 007 creator worked as foreign news manager for Kemsley Newspapers.
A signed first edition copy of James Bond novel Casino Royale is tipped to sell for £95,000
But his contract stipulated that he could have every January and February off to write at Goldeneye, his Jamaican home.
After completing his first Bond novel in 1953, Fleming sent Anthony the copy inscribed: ‘To Tony, Read & Burn, Ian’.
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