Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor
became ill on his Abbeystead Estate and passed away at the Royal Preston
Hospital in Lancashire, a spokeswoman for the estate has revealed.
Britain’s 3rd richest man
is dead. Billionaire landowner the Duke of Westminster died aged 64.
Unconfirmed reports
suggested the Duke suffered a heart attack.
According to the Sunday
Times Rich List 2016 the Duke was worth £9.35 billion placing him sixth in the
list and making him the third richest British national. He was also the 68th
richest billionaire in the world.
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor,
the 6th Duke, is the richest property developer in the UK, whose vast wealth
comes from estates in Oxford, Cheshire, and Scotland as well as huge swathes of
Mayfair and Belgravia.
His tragic death means that
his son Hugh will now inherit the entire estate, including the family seat in
Cheshire, Eaton Hall, at the age of just 25.
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