The authors have spent the last two years researching this story with the help from others who started previously and will now publish their work thanks to the South Australian History Fund grant, awarded by the History Trust of South Australia. Berger, John & Grbich, Carol & National Trust of South Australia, issuing body. 2020, The accidental heiress : journey of a Glencoe squatter's daughter National Trust of South Australia, Glencoe Branch, Glencoe, South Australia viewed 28 November 2023 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2836263189 Wikipedia citation Berger, John, Grbich, Carol and National Trust of South Australia, issuing body. The accidental heiress : journey of a Glencoe squatter's daughter Glencoe, South Australia: National Trust of South Australia, Glencoe Branch, 2020. Web. 28 November 2023 < http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2836263189> Harvard/Australian citation Berger, John & Grbich, Carol & National Trust of South Australia, issuing body. (2020). The accidental heiress : journey of a Glencoe squatter's daughter Retrieved November 28, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2836263189 MLA citation

The book revolves around the Leake family, which was one of the first settlers in south-east South Australia in 1844. Riella, who runs a small flower shop, suddenly inherits all of the fortunes of Duke Hoson, the mighty jeweler because of her special ability. Supporting the extensive community history network and researchers to explore and present South Australia’s unique stories is at the heart of the South Australian History Fund and is a key aspect of the History Trust of South Australia ‘giving the past a future – now,” he said. No one has ever piqued his interest quite like the shy and sensible American Heiress. Miss Abagail Fulton is different from all the other simpering misses, and a real danger to Lord Freeman: she's the type of woman he could see spending the rest of his life with and being eternally happy and forever content. Letitia ended up donating an English estate – Harefield Park – to the Australian Government during World War I and it became the first hospital overseas for the ANZACs.The funds will help authors John Berger and Carol Grbich – both National Trust of SA volunteers – self-publish the historical book The Accidental Heiress – Journey of a Glencoe squatter’s daughter.

We have this beautiful old Woolshed but we didn’t really have a lot of information. It was on boards but nobody really read them,” Ms Grbich said of the inspiration.

We thought let’s look at the family and see who they were. The further we delved, the more exotic it became,” she said. Very wealthy men were clamoring from all over Australia trying to persuade her to marry them. She left the country, ended up living in Big Manor, in England, and ended up buying land all around the world.”

Now-The Duchess of Windsor- is a rich American heiress living among the Haute Ton in England. After an accident, long ago at sea, claimed the lives of her parents, the influential, successful, and wealthy Fulton family took Abagail in and cared for her as their own.The king's younger brother and jeweler, Grand Duke Haun, appears in front of Riela, who is confused by an unexpected inheritance. With Abagail's beloved sister, Jade Fulton, now betrothed to an Earl, Abagail feels alone as she tries to navigate and fit into the often cruel and unforgiving High Society of London's upper ten thousand.