‘He would turn in his grave’: the dead whose assets went to King Charles’s estate

For those who die with no will or heirs in parts of England, the king's estate claims their assets. Here are some of their stories

• Revealed: King secretly profiting from assets of dead citizens
• How bona vacantia is used to collect dead people's money

A black Kia is still parked outside the bungalow once occupied by Val Taylor, a retired nursery manager who cared for generations of children in Burnley. But the property otherwise looks abandoned; windows are coated in dust, grass has grown wild and the front door is boarded up.

For neighbours, it is a reminder of the moment in February last year when police broke in to find the body of the 72-year-old. She had died of a heart attack. It was some time later that, neighbours say, officials representing the royals turned up on their street.