Princess Diana's executors changed her will after her death and gave each godchild one item instead of a quarter of her possessions

Charles and Diana separated in 1992 and divorced on 28 August 1996. She received a lump sum reported at about £17 million and lost the style Her Royal Highness^†. A year later she died in a car crash in Paris. Her will, signed on 1 June 1993, named her mother Frances Shand Kydd and sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale as executors and left most of her estate to William and Harry. The gross estate was about £21 million, reduced to about £17 million after inheritance tax^†. In December 1997 the executors obtained a court variation that delayed the princes' full access from age 25 to age 30^†. A letter of wishes asked that a quarter of her personal possessions go to her 17 godchildren. Because a letter of wishes is not binding, the executors gave each godchild one item. Some godchildren's families complained publicly in 2004^†. Her former butler Paul Burrell was charged in 2002 with stealing her possessions; the trial collapsed when the Queen recalled he had told her he was keeping items safe.