Leonie Schroder

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.^[3]

In March 2019, Schroders appointed her to fill the seat on its board left by her father's death two weeks earlier.^[3][4] This was despite her never having had a role at Schroders or any large financial services company.^[3][4] Other family members, such as her father, had spent years with the company before they became a board director.^[3]

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.^[5] In May 2020, her net worth was estimated at £4.0 billion.^[6]

In February 2026, Leonie was listed on the Sunday Times Tax list with an estimated £113.4 million.^[7]

In 1997, she married Nicholas Francis Fane, an Old Etonian, in Westminster, London.^[3][8] They had three children together, and divorced in 2014.^[3] He died on 19 December 2014, "suddenly and tragically", aged 57,^[9] and his funeral was held on 8 January 2015 at St. Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire.^[10] Fane was a keen sportsman, and in 2008, appeared in "The Field's 50 top shots", published by The Field magazine.^[11][12]

They bought the 1200-acre Hurstbourne Park estate in Whitchurch, Hampshire, formerly the home of Lord Portsmouth, from the Donner family in December 2000.^[13][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.^[14][13] They were planning on creating a semi-wild shooting estate.^[12] The park and garden is grade II listed.^[15]