LOINS OF LONGLEAT, LORD BATH, LEFT NO INHERITANCE FOR HIS SEVENTY FOUR "WIFELETS"

DAILY MAIL UK: LOINS OF LONGLEAT LORD BATH'S WILL LEAVES OUT HIS 74 WIFELETS  by Martin Robinson   Excellent photos!  The Wifelets and the Lord were the featured subject here at Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot in May of 2021.  You can find those posts in the archive.

EXCERPTS : To the public at large, Aleander Thynn cultivated the image of the pony-tailed polygamist living the life o a libertine with scores of lovers while cushioned by great wealth, privileges and the security of a 10,000 acre estate.   ....

Not long after marrying, the free-spirited Bath had another woman on his arm, Tara Moon, a model turned interior designer.  As the Sixties made way for the Seventies, the Longleat harem began....  The women came and went.  Some were given cottages on the estate, though there was no noblesse oblige - they had to pay rent.  He coined the word ' wifelet' to describe these omen,  Glamour girls, actresses, singers, would-be models and some mere concubines, they were all recruited. ... They included Jo Jo Laine, the former wife of Wing's guitarist Denny Laine and an unashamed hedonist, Bond Girl Sylvana Henriques, Chinese artist Chung Yee Change, Sixties model-turned pub landlady Irene Barnett, the actress Cherri Gilham and Nola Fontaine, the outrageous cabaret singer.

To reiterate some information:

At 87. Alexander Thynn - 7th Marquess of Bath, long married to Anna Gael Gyarmathy, died of Coronavirus-19 in March of this year.  He had an estate with many cottages called Longleat, and he had many women installed as "Wifelets" as he called them, living there.  Many of these women were artists. A forever-hippie,