But only if you act by 17 November, then the price of ordering English and Welsh wills, from 1858 onward, increases from £1.50 to £16. Horror!
£1.50 is a real bargain for what can be a multi-page document. Compare that to £8.00 for a pdf copy of a birth or death certificate.
Here are the legal details. The official government Statutory Instrument announcing the fee change for ordering English and Welsh wills is titled “The Court and Public Guardian Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025” (S.I. 2025 No. 1126). It was made on 27 October 2025, and comes into force on 17 November 2025. Specifically, Article 3 of the Order amends the Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004 to increase the fee for a copy of a document for a specific individual named in the request from £1.50 to £16.
Act now on those wills you’ve been procrastinating about ordering to take advantage of the soon-to-disappear low fee. Go to https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate