The Duchess of Kent who died aged 92 left more than £1.4m in her will, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Probate records released today reveal that the much-loved Duchess who was married for 64 years to the late Queen’s cousin, the Duke of Kent, left the bulk of her fortune to her children.

But her will also left £10,000 to the charity Future Talent Musicians which the Duchess co-founded in 2004 to help gifted young musicians from low income backgrounds.

There were also legacies of £5,000 each to her nine godchildren Catherine Cameron, Tania Astor, Clare Kerr, Amabel Kerr, Emma Scott, Christopher Morrell, Edward Marsh, Andrew Burley and George Anandraj.

All her personal chattels, defined as personal possessions such as jewellery, furniture and household contents, were left to the Duke of Kent, although her will stated that he should distribute any items in accordance with any note left by her.

The Duchess who converted to Catholicism in 1993 died peacefully at her home Wren Cottage in Kensington Palace surrounded by members of her family on September 4 last year, aged 92.

She is survived by her husband and their three children George Windsor, 64, who is Earl of St Andrews, Lady Helen Taylor, 62, and Lord Nicholas Windsor, 55.

Probate records reveal she left £1,433,696 in the UK, reduced to a net estate of £1,433,206 after payment of liabilities.

The Duchess of Kent who died aged 92 left more than £1.4m in her will, the Daily Mail can reveal. She is pictured here in 2013 with Prince Edward, Duke of Kent 

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Katharine, Duchess of Kent pose with their children George Windsor, Helen Windsor and baby son Nicholas Windsor at home in London in September 1970

The Duchess of Kent with her baby son, the Earl of St Andrews at her home, Coppins in Iver, Buckinghamshire in July 1962

The wills of senior members of the Royal family are normally sealed and kept private for at least 90 years, but the will of the Duchess is thought to have been made public due to her having stepped down from Royal duties in 2002.

Probate records reveal her will was drawn up on October 5, 2022 and signed simply Katharine Kent in what appears to be faltering handwriting. It was witnessed by a personal assistant and an occupational therapist.

The will stipulated that her interest in a property in Edwardes Square, Kensington, west London, be left to her grandson Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, the Baron Downpatrick.

The Duchess also left the income from interest in her family trust – the Worsley Settlement – to her husband the Duke of Kent during his lifetime.

Thereafter, it stipulated that half the remaining capital and income go to her eldest son, the Earl of St Andrews, with a third going to her other son and a one sixth share for her daughter Lady Helen.

The will stated that if any of her children pre-deceased her, then their share should go to any children they had.

The remainder of her estate, known as the residuary, was left in trust for her three children after payment of legal and funeral expenses.

The Duchess was born as Katharine Worsley in 1933 as the youngest daughter of Sir William Worsley, a prominent Yorkshire landowner and descendant of Oliver Cromwell who had captained the Yorkshire cricket team in the 1920s, and his wife Joyce.

She was the first person without a title to marry into the Royal Family for more than a century – but what the Duchess of Kent viewed as a point of pride became a matter of contention for her ‘impossibly imperious’ mother-in-law, a royal biographer previously revealed

The Duke of Kent and his fiancee, Miss Katharine Worsley, who became the Duchess of Kent, in a May 1961 image released before their marriage 

Edward and Katharine, Duke and Duchess of Kent, with their children George, Earl of St. Andrews; Lady Helen Windsor; and Lord Nicholas Windsor

She attended finishing school and volunteered at an orphanage in York before teaching at an exclusive kindergarten in Kensington, west London, and meeting Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, in 1956 when he was an Army officer.

His mother Princess Marina, who infamously described the late Queen Mother as ‘that common little Scottish girl’, opposed their romance and ordered them to spend time apart.

The Duke who inherited his title in 1942 at the age of six on the death of his father Prince George in a flying accident was posted to Germany with his regiment in 1959, while Katharine went to Canada for five months, visiting her brother John in Canada and worked in a luxury goods store.

The couple later resumed their courtship, and wed in 1961 when she became the first untitled woman to marry into the Windsor family for more than 100 years in a love match which finally won the approval of her mother-in-law.

The Duchess who was a concert-standard pianist became known for her grace and charm, and her ability to show empathy to ordinary people and for comforting the sick and dying long before the arrival of Princess Diana.

She had a long association with Wimbledon, handing out ladies’ singles trophies over three decades, and famously had an emotional embrace with a tearful Jana Novotná after she lost to Steffi Graf in 1993.

The duchess publicly converted to Catholicism in 1993 after many years of soul-searching, ill health and tragedy, including a miscarriage in 1975 and giving birth to a stillborn son Patrick in 1977 which sent her into a severe depression.

She was the first senior royal to convert publicly since the 1701 Act of Settlement.

The duchess also volunteered at Westminster Cathedral’s shelter for the homeless, served at Lourdes each summer and took calls anonymously for the Samaritans, one of many organisations where she was patron

She stopped being a working royal in 2002, after she sought permission from Queen Elizabeth to withdraw from public life

The duchess taught music anonymously at the state-run Wansbeck primary school in Hull for the next 13 years, travelling there by train from London, unrecognised and unnoticed.

Questions were raised over the state of her marriage, and she was said to be living a largely separate life to her husband for many years.

But the couple remained living together with a series of labradors at their home Wren Cottage, a wisteria-clad cottage in Kensington Palace, for many years.

The funeral of the duchess at Westminster Cathedral was the first Catholic funeral for a member of the Royal family in modern times. Mourners included King Charles, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Anne and her husband Sir Tim Laurence and the Duchess of Edinburgh.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor also attended the funeral with his former wife Sarah Ferguson in what turned out to be his last public appearance with members of the Royal family.