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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: 'Wifelets' of the late Alexander Weymouth - know as the 'Loins of Longleat' - gather to mark his life on 9,000-acre estate

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: All of them will be ex-lovers of late Alexander, the 7th Marquess of Bath (pictured), who died in 2020, after enjoying a succession of so-called 'wifelets'.

All of them, I can reveal, will be ex-lovers of Emma's late father-in-law, Alexander, the 7th Marquess of Bath, who died in 2020 aged 87, after enjoying a succession of so-called 'wifelets' — 75 of them in all — earning himself the soubriquet 'the Loins of Longleat'. 'His dear friends' is how one of them, Bridget, an Australian fashion designer, describes the group, before explaining why she has co-ordinated the gathering, which, she says, will be held at Heaven's Gate, a beauty spot on the 9,000-acre estate. But he has, of course, been there much longer than any of his father's old friends — including Jamaican-born bombshell and one-time Bond girl Sylvana Henriques, who, as I disclosed last month, hopes to retrieve the portrait Alexander painted of her and which used to hang on a staircase alongside those of his other wifelets.

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