Housekeeper rewarded
A LUCKY Irish housekeeper in Scotland is to be rewarded with a £3.5million
fortune as a thank-you from her boss.
Wealthy Scottish bachelor Basil Death who is also originally thought to
be from Ireland has ordered that his £3.5million fortune is used
to look after his long-serving housekeeper, Theresa Wade.
Financier Mr Death, 90, told the executors of his will to set up a trust
fund for spinster Theresa, 80, who looked after him for 60 years.
He said if the executors wanted to they could give Theresa, known as Tess,
all the money but any left after her death will go to charities.
Mr Death — pronounced Deeth — and Theresa are believed to
be from Ireland originally. Neither of them married and they had no close
family.
They moved to a mansion in Strathtay, near Aberfeldy, Perthshire 20 years
ago.
Friends said Mr Death set up the will to ensure Theresa did not face any
sort of financial hardship after his death.
He has ordered his executors to pay her £50,000 in cash initially
and to give her any furniture or personal possessions they believe she
might like.
A friend of Theresa said: “It was just the two of them in the house.
“Of course she was below stairs in the old days when she started
but over the years they got to be very close.
“It was never romantic or anything but they were the closest thing
either of them had to family.”
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