The Will to Succeed : Lady Anne Clifford's Battle for her Rights

The Will to Succeed : Lady Anne Clifford's Battle for her Rights

Christine Raafat

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FörlagUniverse
ISBN9781912690961

When the 15-year-old Lady Anne Clifford's father died in 1605, she was his sole surviving child and expecting to inherit the Cliffords' great northern estates. But the Earl of Cumberland leaves a will which ignores an ancient law and bequeaths the lands to his brother, in the belief that a prophecy