Stella loves the old treasures she sells as an auctioneer . But since she has been working with her husband Peter and his father Richard in the family auction house , her marriage has been in trouble . After another argument , she wants a divorce. But before they start their projectimplement , she receives an invitation to the reading of the will of a Lord Willoughby, of whom she has never heard . Curious , she makes her way to Cornwall . There they are awaited by an impressive property and the attractive architect David, who after the death of theLords temporarily looking after the estate . When she is greeted by the cranky old butler James with "Countess of Willoughby" , she is stunned. In addition to Stella , the Lord's second wife, June , and her sister Virginia are present at the reading of the will . To the all-roundTo their surprise , they learn that Stella is the Lord 's granddaughter . Stella 's father had chosen his civil love and had been cast out as a result .
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.