£750,000 and No Known Heir: Who Inherits? | Heir Hunters

£750,000. Half a million pounds. Pearls that once belonged to the Duchess of Windsor. These are the biggest estates of Season 8. Seven complete cases, start to finish: a £750,000 estate with no known heir, a £300,000 estate in a seaside town, the jewellery with a royal connection, a linguist's £300,000 estate, the £200,000 case that refused to crack, a £100,000 estate with no will, and a woman's estate taken on without knowing its value, until the true figure came out. Heir Hunters follows the probate researchers racing to trace the rightful heirs to unclaimed estates, before the money passes to the Crown as bona vacantia. Every case here comes from Season 8, first shown on BBC One in 2014. Could you be a missing heir? Tell us your family's story in the comments. ▶ Subscribe for new full episodes every week ▶ Watch every Season 8 episode in the playlist Chapters 0:00 The £750,000 Oxfordshire estate (S8 Ep7) 18:38 The £300,000 seaside estate (S8 Ep12) 36:11 The Duchess of Windsor's pearls (S8 Ep18) 50:40 The linguist's £300,000 estate (S8 Ep13) 1:07:39 The £200,000 case that wouldn't crack (S8 Ep16) 1:25:48 £100,000 in Newcastle (S8 Ep2) 1:46:05 The half-million-pound surprise (S8 Ep17) #HeirHunters #UnclaimedFortune #Inheritance #MissingHeir #UnclaimedEstates #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilySecrets #Ancestry #BonaVacantia #LongLostFamily #FamilyTree #RealStories #TrueStories #BBCDocumentary