I haven't had time to fully solve the puzzle today, and I suspect it cannot be fully understood without looking at the original court documents. But below is a summary published by the Dundee Courier
Eventually the media reported that a settlement had been reached which was accepted by all, but I have not seen any precise details. Nor was I looking for these, as I decided that I should try to concentrate on the jewels -- but alas I found nothing more.
I am not sure that I find the story of Boy Capel informing the first Lady Michelham about the provisions of the final will plausible, as the evidence in the media is that, initially, Lady Michelham (Aimee) was present when the codicil was made and assisted her husband to sign that as well as the document giving her very new daughter-in-law such a large annual income. Then, she (or the trustees) challenged the will.
Boy Capel was the brother of the second Lady Michelham so why he would want to deprive his sister of such an enormous annual income is unclear.
I will have to try to find time to go back to the media on the weekend and copy more items on the law case.
The first Lady Michelham left an estate valued at over half a million pounds sterling at her death. I haven't found a report in the media at the time probate was granted stating who inherited her money. Not many months before her death she had married a much younger man, Frederick Almy, an American.
One of his obituaries stated that he had inherited Aimee Stern's (Lady Michelham) money, but I have not checked the will to see if that is correct.
Second husband, Frederick Almy, inherited money.
This is one instance where a husband does not seem to have mourned a departed wife for long. Aimee Michelham died on 1 January 1927. By early March 1927 the press was reporting that he, Frederick Almy, had remarried.
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