When Anna-Louise Stewart quit her £85,000-a-year job to spend more time with her children, she hadn’t worked out all the details of how she would cover her living costs. Luckily, a few months later she received a letter that would change her entire life.
It was 2020 when Anna-Louise, 48, heard from an attorney in America. It said her great uncle, who had lived in Santa Monaco and died a decade earlier, had left her £5,000.
An heir hunter in the US had tracked down one of his investments, found the beneficiaries, and Anna-Louise was due 50 per cent.
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She said: “I couldn’t believe it. I was amazed.”
