The late Jade Goody ran through a fortune estimated to have been worth £6million and meant to sustain her two beloved sons, Bobbie, six, and Freddie, four.

Goody, a reality TV star whose public battle with cancer made her a heroine, is now estimated to have just £800,000 left - of which £300,000 is due in taxes that would cover unpaid taxes for the last three years of her life.

A remaining estimated £500,000 would not stretch to cover the estimated £600,000 cost of the boys' private education. However, royalties from her autobiography titled Catch A Falling Star

are expected to bridge the gap as far as the boys' schooling is concerned.

An insider said: "In her dying days, she sold her story, the TV rights to her wedding and also made money from her diary account of her illness. She did it all for her precious boys but when all the bills are totted up, there is not as much as she had hoped."

The source added: "But the most important thing for Jade was that the boys got a top-class education. Thanks to her, they will."

Goody died in March of cervical cancer. Her will donated £100,000 to charity and made sure her mother received a monthly allowance.