Aristocratic singer-songwriter Bo Bruce is at the centre of a second legal battle with her brother – just two years after winning a £2 million inheritance fight against him.
Bo, who appeared on BBC talent show The Voice, won a High Court case against Thomas in 2022 after being denied her share of the inheritance from their mother Lady Rosamund, the former Countess of Cardigan, who had died a decade earlier.
A judge ordered Thomas to sell their mother’s home, Leigh Hill House, on the family’s Savernake Estate in Wiltshire, and split the proceeds as the will had demanded. He also criticised him for ‘ignoring his responsibilities’ towards his sister.
Two years on, Land Registry records show Thomas is still the registered owner of the property.
Bo has launched a new High Court action, which is listed as ‘dispute(s) relating to trust property’, although it does not specify which one.
Thomas became Earl of Cardigan in May after his 98-year-old grandfather, the 8th Marquess of Ailesbury, died falling from a window of his West London home, reportedly while trying to let out his cat, Honeybun.
Bo Bruce is locked in another legal battle with her aristocratic brother – just two years after winning a £2million inheritance fight against him
Bo has launched a new High Court action relating to a dispute on her late mother’s property, Leigh Hill House, on the family’s Savernake Estate in Wiltshire
Two years ago, the siblings’ father, David, now the 9th Marquess, was horrified when told that his children might be about to renew their legal battles.
He said: ‘I am appalled at the prospect of yet more family money being spent on my two elder children having another go at each other.’
But when David found he was being excluded from inheriting anything from his father, the late marquess, he told reporters that he would be contesting the will.
David, who met his second wife Joanne in a New Mexico rehab clinic, has expressed concerns over the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, who was suffering from dementia.
