Leonie Schroder

Leonie Kira Emma Schroder[2] is the only child of Bruno Schroder and his first wife, Patricia "Piffa" Holt. She was educated at the University of St Andrews[1]

Schroder has been a director of the Schroder Charity Trust, the Red Squirrel Survival Trust and "various entities connected to Dunlossit, the family's large estate" on the Isle of Islay, off Scotland's west coast.[1]

In March 2019, Schroders appointed her to fill the seat on its board left by her father's death two weeks earlier.[1][3] This was despite her never having had a role at Schroders or any large financial services company.[1][3] Other family members, such as her father, had spent years with the company before they became a board director.[1]

In January 2020, Schroder and family were ranked third in a list of the UK's top 50 taxpayers, with an annual tax bill of £116.8 million on their £4 billion wealth.[4] In May 2020, her net worth was estimated at £4.0 billion.[5]

In 1997, she married Nicholas Francis Fane, an Old Etonian, in Westminster, London.[1][6] They had three children together, and divorced in 2014.[1] He died on 19 December 2014, "suddenly and tragically", aged 57,[7] and his funeral was held on 8 January 2015 at St. Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire.[8] Fane was a keen sportsman, and in 2008, appeared in "The Field's 50 top shots", published by The Field magazine.[9][10]

They bought the 1200-acre Hurstbourne Park estate in Whitchurch, Hampshire, formerly the home of Lord Portsmouth, from the Donner family in December 2000.[11][2] A year later, they planned to demolish the remains of the 19th-century house and build a new one, whilst retaining the listed stable block, and the 19th century walled garden and pump house.[12][11] They were planning on creating a semi-wild shooting estate.[10] The park and garden is grade II listed.[13]