Castle soldes in the Air by Melville, Alan NEUF

The impecunious owner of a haunted Scottish castle has to juggle the advances of an American heiress who wishes to buy him out, the love of his longtime assistant soldes who wants to marry him, and a Coal Board official who wishes to commandeer the estate. The British National Coal Board wants to annex the owners castle as a group home for local miners and their families. Wealthy, much-married American Mrs. Clodfelter Dunne wants to claim the castle - and its owner, the Earl of Locharne - for herself. Meanwhile, eccentric boarder Miss Nicholson is obsessed with the idea that the Earl is actually the rightful King of Scotland.