A bank boss excluded his daughters from his £7million will because their “lack of respect and gratitude” made him feel like Shakespeare’s King Lear, a court has heard.
Ex-CEO Tony Shearer, 68 when a brain tumour killed him, branded one of them “ghastly” due to her demands for his money, said the girls’ stepmum Pamela.
Sisters Juliet Miles, 40, and Lauretta Shearer, 38, seek “maintenance” amounting to £1.26million from his estate to replace the “generous financial provision” while he lived.
Pamela, 68, told the High Court: “I’m going to quote King Lear here – ‘Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is an ungrateful child’. "That is how my husband felt.” The Shakespeare play tells of a king who goes mad after being betrayed by his daughters.
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