Oxford don whose mum married woman half her age and disinherited him wins £1m payout

mirror.co.uk:

An Oxford don who sued after his elderly mum fell for a woman half her age and disinherited him has been handed a payout of almost £1m by a top judge.

Professor Christopher Gosden said his loving mum Dr Jean Weddell, a medical doctor, had vowed in 2003 to leave him her Edwardian London home.

But instead the director of the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University was left with nothing when she died in 2013. That was after she fell in love with Wendy Cook, a barrister 37 years her junior, with whom Dr Weddell formed a civil partnership in 2007, at the age of 78.

By the time she died in 2013, she had made a new will, handing nothing to her son but leaving much of her estate to her new partner.