A man who died in a Liverpool care home was found to be the missing estranged husband of a wealthy woman and was using an alias, a court ruled.
Elizabeth Grosvenor, from Wallasey, died without making a will in Scotland in 2016, aged 91, having lived with dementia for some years. As the process of executing her estate, and her "substantial" interest in a decades-old trust fund, was being unravelled by her family and the trustees of that fund, a problem became clear.
Investigators found there was no evidence she had officially divorced her third husband, Joseph Grosvenor, when they separated in 1993 after marrying in Wallasey, in 1991, when Elizabeth was 66. But a court was asked to make an strange decision - was Mr Grosvenor the same person as a Marc Lawrence, who died aged 85 in Liverpool in 2020, also in the grip of advanced dementia?
