LEGENDARY author Joanna Trollope left £150,000 each to the sons of her ex-husband in her £1.6million will, The Sun can reveal.
The Aga Saga writer, who , also handed them the rights to two of her popular novels.
Probate documents seen by The Sun show her estate was worth £1,650,822, which fell to £1,566,329 after and expenses were paid.
Trollope’s will, signed in January 2021, gives stepsons Tobit and Mikol Curteis, from her to TV dramatist Ian Curteis, £150,000 each.
She handed a further £5,000 to each of their children.
Tobit also gets the copyright to her 1990 book A Passionate Man, while Mikol receives the rights to 2004 hit Brother and Sister.
Ian Curteis was married to Trollope from 1985 until they divorced in 2001.
Daughters Louise Ansdell and Antonia Potter Prentice, from her first marriage to banker David Potter, will split the rest of the fortune.
They have also been made her literary executors, giving them control of her manuscripts, letters and copyrights.
Each of her gets £10,000, while her sister Victoria Hutchings is left £15,000.
Her brother Andrew was left £10,000, plus a further £5,000 if he acted as an executor, “as a small gesture of my thanks and appreciation”.
The beloved writer’s five nephews, nine godchildren, her personal assistant Vikki Firth and her archivist and typist Jessica Clark each get £5,000.
She also nominated her daughters to be consulted on the running of the Joanna Trollope Trust, a Gloucestershire-based .
Joanna had her work translated into more than 25 languages and sold around seven million in her lifetime.
Her daughters led tributes after her death last year, calling their mother “beloved and inspirational”.
The star’s literary agent, James Gill, said: “It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Joanna Trollope, one of our most cherished, acclaimed and widely enjoyed novelists.
“Joanna will be mourned by her children, grandchildren, family, her countless friends and, of course, her readers.”
Trollope worked as a civil servant at the Foreign Office and as a teacher before turning to writing full-time in 1980.
She first wrote historical romances under the pen name Caroline Harvey.
Her 1991 novel The Rector’s Wife beat Jeffrey Archer to the top of the hardback bestseller list.
Explaining her books’ popularity, she once said: “I think my books are just the dear old traditional novel making a quiet comeback.”
She was made an OBE in 1996 and later a CBE for services to literature.
