Grace & Favour

Grace & Favour (known in the United States as Are You Being Served? Again!) was a British sitcom, and the sequel series to the long-running programme Are You Being Served?

Premise

The elderly and womanizing Young Mr Grace, head of Grace Brothers Department Store, had recently died while on holiday in the Caribbean with his personal secretary, Miss Jessica Lovelock. (Characters were quoted as saying, "When her top popped off, so did he.")

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As per the instructions in his will, the final workers left at Grace Brothers' closing sale (coincidentally, most of the staff who were present in the original series) were named co-beneficiaries in his will.

Related Topics:
Will - Beneficiaries

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Young Mr Grace had invested their pension funds in a multitude of businesses so he could write them off as tax losses, and allotted the staff a country manor house. The will stipulated that they could not sell the house and split the profits, so the workers agreed to move to the country in order to make the manor house into an inn and live off the proceeds. Miss Lovelock was given the best accommodations in the house, angering the former staff members from the start.

Related Topics:
Pension - Manor house - Inn

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Another stipulation in the will was that in order to cash what measly pension they were allotted, Miss Lovelock was required to sign their checks, meaning that unless they treated her well, they wouldn't see their money at all.

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