The 6th Earl Cawdor left Cawdor Castle to his second wife, and a court put his son's children out of it

Hugh Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor and 24th Thane of Cawdor, died in London on 20 June 1993, aged 60. In 1979 he had divorced his first wife, Cathryn, after 22 years and married Countess Angelika Lazansky von Bukowa, born in Bohemia. His will left Cawdor Castle near Nairn, which drew 100,000 visitors a year, to Angelika. His son Colin, the 7th Earl, received control of estate farmland and a grouse moor. The will also made stepmother and stepson co-directors of the estate farming company and of Cawdor Castle Tourism, which ran the castle. They fell out. She blocked his plans for genetically modified crops on the estate. In November 2002, while she was in the United States, the Earl moved his wife and children into the castle. She went to the Court of Session. The court ordered his children out but did not grant her possession against the Earl. The family left. The castle reopened in 2003 under a new company, Cawdor Castle Ltd, with no role for the Earl. In 2006 his sister Liza published a memoir calling the will a "dirty bomb". Angelika said that year she would pass the castle "to my stepson or his eldest child". In 2007 the two announced a joint housing plan for 274 acres at Delnies, outside Nairn. The castle opened for its 2026 season from 25 April to 4 October. No transfer of ownership has been reported^†.