Billionaire landowner the Duke of Westminster dies at 64
LONDON — Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the sixth Duke of Westminster — a friend of Britain’s royal family and one of the country’s wealthiest landowners — has died at 64.
The Grosvenor Estate said the duke died Tuesday at a hospital in Preston, in northwest England, after suddenly becoming ill at his vast Abbeystead Estate nearby.
His 25-year-old son Hugh Grosvenor — a godfather to young royal Prince George — will inherit the title and the Grosvenor Estate, which owns 300 acres (121 hectares) in some of London’s wealthiest areas.
The Grosvenor family traces its roots back to the Norman invasion of England in 1066.