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By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 20:12 EDT, 14 August 2025 | Updated: 20:31 EDT, 14 August 2025 <\/p>\n

Giles Paxman, the diplomat brother of BBC<\/a> journalist Jeremy Paxman<\/a>, left a staggering \u00a32.1 million to his family after his tragic passing.<\/p>\n

The former UK ambassador to Mexico<\/a> and Spain<\/a> died of lung cancer<\/a> in March, aged 73.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His will, signed less than a month before his death, states that his estate of \u00a32,096,640 should pass to his French wife Segolene.<\/p>\n

The couple, who lived in south-west London<\/a>, have three daughters.<\/p>\n

After retiring, keen yachtsman Giles, the second of four siblings, sailed the Atlantic twice and the Pacific once.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Giles was interviewed on BBC Newsnight by his own brother Jeremy about the devastation caused in Mexico by Hurricane Wilma.<\/p>\n

Giles and Segolene married in Agen, France, in 1980 and had three daughters – Julia, who now works in the luxury travel industry, Lauren, a secondary school teacher, and Alice, a vet.<\/p>\n

He was appointed ambassador to Mexico in 2005 and learnt in his second week in office that Hurricane Wilma was headed straight for Cancun.<\/p>\n

In 2009 Giles was appointed Britain\u2019s ambassador to Spain where he stayed for four years.<\/p>\n

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Giles Paxman (pictured), the diplomat brother of BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman, left a whopping \u00a32.1 million to his family after his tragic passing<\/p>\n

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In 2005, Giles was interviewed on BBC Newsnight by his own brother Jeremy (pictured) about the devastation caused in Mexico by Hurricane Wilma<\/p>\n

He left the diplomatic service in 2013 and the same year he was honoured for his service.<\/p>\n

Giles was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George later in 2013.<\/p>\n

Unlike many of his predecessors\u00a0Giles never received a knighthood.<\/p>\n

Giles was born at Gosport, Hampshire, on November 15, 1951.<\/p>\n

He was brought up in the Lickey Hills, south of Birmingham and followed Jeremy to Malvern College.<\/p>\n

He then went on and read Modern Languages at New College, Oxford, spending a year as a riding instructor in France.<\/p>\n

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