Syntagma readers may remember a long-running story we carried last year about English aristocrat Sir Benjamin Slade’s search for an heir to his fabulous country estate in Somerset.

We first put the story out on our sister site, Aristocracy Anecdotes. It made the Today show in the U.S. and we were deluged with hundreds of comments and emails, many assuming I was Sir Ben himself. Since then, the site has received a steady flow of traffic from would-be Slades and country gentlefolk. Sir Benjamin himself received 15,000 applications.

Now we know that he is close to finding his longed-for heir to the Maunsel estate in the unlikely shape of a young American rock singer, Isaac Slade (pictured, right), frontman to the band, Fray.

Read this great story in full here.