Legendary Brit rock star’s widow leaves eye-watering £18million in her will
THE widow of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts left more than £18million in her will.
Shirley Watts, who died 16 months after him, bequeathed the fortune to her family.
In her will, published yesterday, she left an estate valued at £18.3million, which was left in trust to her close family.
The named beneficiaries were her daughter Seraphina, grand-daughter Charlotte and brother Stephen Shepherd.
Seraphina also gets her parents’ hideaway luxury pad in the south of France.
Two of her staff, Carol Marner and Sharon Bentley, will also receive a tax-free payment equivalent to two years’ salary.
Shirley met Charlie in 1961, before the Stones formed, at London’s Royal College of Art, where she was studying sculpture and he was doing graphic design.
They were married for 57 years — with Shirley known for keeping Charlie grounded.
She went on to be a horse breeder, running a world-renowned stud from their Devon manor house.
She died aged 84 last December last year.
Charlie, 80, passed away in August 2021.
After Charlie died Mick Jagger said: “It seems like only yesterday that I was in the studio with Charlie, joshing around.
“It’s just so weird and then very sad.
“And I mean, it’s such a long time that you work with someone like that, and you get to know someone so well and their quirks and their idiosyncrasies and they know yours.
“And there’s a language in communication with musicians, obviously, or anything else.
“So, you talk about it.
“It’s difficult talking about music.
“But so, after all this length of time, you have this ease of communication, so to speak with another musician.
“That’s very rare. I miss that so much.”