Widow of Charlie Watts, Late Drummer of Rolling Stones Left Whopping Amount For Daughter, Employees

The widow of the late Charlie Watts, the drummer for the Rolling Stones, left her family more than £18 million in her will.

Just 16 months after guitarist Charlie passed away at the age of 80 in August of last year from complications following emergency heart surgery, her brother Stephen Shepherd, daughter Seraphina, and granddaughter Charlotte were appointed as beneficiaries of her £18.3 million estate.

According to The Sun, Carol Marner and Sharon Bentley, two of Shirley's employees, would receive a tax-free sum equal to two years' worth of their income, while Seraphina will also inherit her parents' opulent French chateau.

Sixteen months after the Rolling Stones drummer lost his fight with cancer, Charlie's wife Shirley passed away in December of last year at the age of 82 after a brief illness. Shirley's family declared that she was already "reunited with her beloved Charlie" in a statement issued at the time.

Shirley passed away quietly following a brief illness. Her brother Stephen, sisters Jackie and Jill, and other family members will also deeply miss her. forever reunited with her dear Charlie.

Shirley Ann Shepherd, who was born in September 1938, met Charlie in 1961 while he was a student at the Royal College of Art studying sculpture.

At the time, Charlie worked as a graphic designer for an advertising business and also played jazz music in his own time. A year after Charlie joined the Stones, in 1964, the couple tied the knot after first meeting at his first rehearsal with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated.

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Their daughter Seraphina was born four years later to Shirley, who during her marriage to Charlie rose to prominence as a horse breeder.

In addition, he thanked Shirley for rescuing him from the "illness" of turning to heroin and speed after the Stones became well-known.

His daughter informed him that his drug usage had turned him into a vampire. Charlie battled throat cancer for four months before receiving the all-clear in 2004. He passed away on August 4, 2021.

It follows Sir Mick Jagger's admission that he misses his late bandmate Charlie's "laconic humour" and that he thinks about him "a lot."

The singer claimed that whenever he goes on stage without his cherished bandmate, he frequently considers the songs that Charlie would have like and the set list he would have performed. In his speech about accepting Charlie's passing, Sir Mick also emphasized that grieving never gets any easier.