Five sisters handed just £50 each from their grandfather's £500,000 fortune because he was upset they didn't visit him insist he would have wanted to leave them more - as they are hit with a £220,000

Five sisters who lost a High Court battle for a greater share of their grandfather's inheritance are 'puzzled and frustrated' by a judge's decision to hand them a £220,000 bill for legal costs, says a source close to the family. The sisters were bequeathed just £50 each from their 91-year-old grandfather Frederick Ward Senior's £500,000 fortune. Former soldier Frederick Ward Snr, of South Ealing, London, died at the age of 91 in 2020 Christine Ward and her four sisters now face a court bill approaching £220,000 Angela St Marseille and her four sisters were bequeathed just £50 each from their grandfather Frederick Ward Senior's £500,000 fortune Carol Gowing, pictured outside London's High Court, sued her aunt and uncle alongside her four sisters Fred Junior's widow, Ann Ward, declined to comment when MailOnline approached her last night. Giving judgement earlier this year, the judge rejected the sisters' claims Janet Pett was one of five sisters who were all handed £50 at the 'provocative' will reading Before Frederick Ward Snr died in 2020 he cut out his late son Fred Jnr's five adult children because he was 'disappointed' by their 'very limited' contact with him in his latter years.