The Dowager Marchioness of Bath dies just 10 days before her 79th birthday
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The widowed Marchioness of Bath – who got into an argument with her son when she married Strictly Come Dancing star Emma Weymouth and whose husband Lord Bath had over 70 mistresses – dies just 10 days before her 79th birthday
- Widow Marquise of Bath died in Paris, where she spent much of her time
- Anna Gael endured the infidelity of her eccentric husband Alexander Thynn
- But she was less lenient with son Ceawlin’s choice of bride Emma McQuiston
- She allegedly asked Ceawlin if he was sure he would ruin ‘400 years of bloodline’
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The widowed Marchioness of Bath had died just 10 days before her 79th birthday.
Anna Gael, a former actress and model, died in Paris, where she spent most of her time, after enduring years of her husband’s womanizing.
A few wives are willing to tolerate their husband keeping a mistress. Not many people are willing to turn a blind eye that he has more than 70.
The Marchioness Dowager of Bath, however, did just that, with the infidelity of her eccentric husband, Alexander Thynn, the 7th Marquess.
While Mrs. Gael endured her husband’s womanizing, earning him the nickname “The Loins of Longleat,” she was less sympathetic to her son Ceawlin’s bridal choice.
She is said to have asked Ceawlin – the then heir to Longleat, with his 10,000-acre estate, wildlife park and a known fortune of £150 million – if he was sure of ruining ‘400 years of bloodline’ by marrying Emma McQuiston, the half-Nigerian daughter of an oil magnate.
Known as Emma Weymouth after she married Ceawlin and then Viscount Weymouth in 2013, she rose to fame as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing.
Lord Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, poses with his wife, actress and war correspondent Anna Gael, outside Longleat House
Emma Weymouth, Marchioness of Bath, and Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth attended the launch of Idris Elba and David Farber’s Porte Noire Bar and Shop in Coal Drops Yard last year
Emma Weymouth, Marchioness of Bath, attends the amfAR Gala Cannes 2022 earlier this year at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Lord Bath, who died of pneumonia after testing positive for Covid in 2020, aged 87, was not present at the couple’s wedding. His wife was also absent, claiming that they had already accepted another invitation.
Ceawlin allegedly prevented his mother from seeing his son John to prevent the child from being ‘infected’ by her racism.
Anna later denied she was a racist, saying she had “absolutely nothing” against her daughter-in-law.
Anna was born in Hungary to a mathematician’s father and a poet’s mother. After moving to France as a child, she began acting at the age of 15, under the stage name Anna Gael, in such films as Therese And Isabelle and Take Me, Love Me.
She met Alexander in Paris and became his mistress while married to French film director Gilbert Pineau.
Despite living mainly in Paris while Lord Bath was in Wiltshire for much of their marriage, she complained to a newspaper when it reported that they had broken up, insisting this was not true.
It wasn’t just Emma’s arrival at Longleat that strained Ceawlin’s relationship with his parents.
The main reason for disagreement was Ceawlin and Emma’s decision to remove some of Lord Bath’s gaudy murals, which his father had painted for him and his sister when they were children.
The quarrels were brought to light by a memorable BBC1 documentary, All Change At Longleat.