British Boy Inherits $16-Million Mansion
<i> Reuters</i>
LONDON — A 12-year-old British boy with an aristocratic pedigree will get a big Christmas present this year--a treasure-filled 16th-Century mansion.
An unmarried distant relative who died this week left Simon Cunliffe-Lister an Elizabethan mansion on 5,000 acres of farmland worth about $16 million. Marcus Wickham-Boynton, a former guardsman and racehorse breeder, died with no close relatives and was determined to have the hall at Bridlington in northern England remain in the family.
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