FORMER Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s wife Glenys left £1.5million in her estate, documents reveal.
The Baroness, who died aged 79 in December 2023, bequeathed the entire sum to her beloved husband of 56 years.
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The ex-MEP was known for supporting her husband while he campaigned against Margaret Thatcher and John Major in unsuccessful elections.
She was later elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, in Wales, and served as a Foreign Office minister under Gordon Brown.
Court records signed off last week show the respected peer left an estate worth £1,514,275.
Her husband, MP son Stephen and daughter Rachel were appointed as executors of the estate.
She signed her final will in 2009.
Glenys was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2017 and her family campaigned for better treatment of the debilitating brain disorder.
Lord Kinnock revealed she was having carers give her treatment for five hours a day.
Speaking in 2022, he added: “Glenys is a highly articulate, immensely lively, funny woman, a brilliant cook, wonderful mother and grandmother – and in all of those areas she has lost capability.
“She would meet every challenge, whether it was border guards in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or a new recipe, she would take it on.
“She’d get away with immensely challenging sometimes very dangerous situations with this hint of mischief – a special magic.”
The dedicated and talented politician accompanied her husband on trips around the world – though often joked Neil was too much of a daredevil.
When he deserted her to tour the cockpit during one flight, she told reporters: “Neil wants to be a pilot when he grows up.”
On another trip to Zimbabwe in 1988, the couple were locked in an airport security cell by Robert Mugabe’s forces who were unaware of their planned arrival.
Both Kinnocks are said to have blasted the dictator’s armed security guards with a verbal tirade.
And while an MEP for her native south-west Wales, Glenys was shot at while on a diplomatic mission in the Solomon Islands.
Labour leader and PM Keir Starmer led tributes after her death, writing: “Glenys was a passionate lifelong campaigner for social justice at home and abroad.
“Neil and Glenys had the most wonderful partnership, there for each other through thick and thin, with a love and commitment that was instantly obvious when you saw them together.”
Sir Tony Blair said Baroness Kinnock’s death would be “mourned in many countries and corners of the Earth”.
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