Dame Jilly Cooper left eye-watering sum to adopted children after fatal fall at Gloucestershire home

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Dame Jilly Cooper left behind a fortune worth more than £8.5million following her death last October, newly released probate documents have revealed.The celebrated novelist, known as the "queen of the bonkbuster", amassed an estate valued at £9,070,307 before liabilities, leaving a net value of £8,557,118.Her adopted children, Felix and Emily, along with stepdaughter Laura from her late husband Leo Cooper's previous marriage, will each inherit an equal share of the estate.Best known for her bestselling Rutshire Chronicles series, Dame Jilly sold more than 11 million books in Britain alone and became one of the country's most successful romantic novelists.

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