5. An estate is exempt from Inheritance Tax if the deceased left everything to their husband, wife or civil partner, who lives permanently in the UK. Married couples and civil partners can give any value of gifts to each other during their lifetime without Inheritance Tax being due on them.
While most people are aware the Mona Lisa is also called La Gioconda by the Italians (translation: a light-hearted woman.), fewer know the French refer to it as La Joconde. Done in oils on poplar wood it was originally much larger than it is today.
Mona Lisa location: Simoneâs apartment: Trinity Court, Gray's Inn Road, London WC1. Cabdriver George (Bob Hoskins) is hired to ferry high-class hooker Simone (Cathy Tyson) between assignations in a melancholically sleazy London. Mona Lisa location: Simone hangs out: The Ritz, Piccadilly, W1.