The libidinous late Marquess of Bath – known as the Loins of Longleat – cheekily dubbed them his ‘wifelets’ – 74 lovers whose company he enjoyed during his 51-year marriage to actress wife Anna Gael.

At the time of aristocrat Alexander Thynn’s death in 2020 aged 87, three of his wifelets still lived in properties belonging to his £23million Longleat Estate in Wiltshire.

Now it is claimed that, after years of legal wrangling, the new Lord Bath Ceawlin Thynn has forced two of his father’s former mistresses out of their properties.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that just one of the eccentric 7th Marquess of Bath’s paramours – former model and nurse Trudi Juggernauth-Sharma, 76 – remains in one of Longleat’s grace-and-favour cottages.

Speaking to the MoS last night, she said: ‘I feel free, and it’s a big relief that the other wifelets have gone and I am the last one standing. But I really do miss Alexander.

‘It is not the same without him in my life. I do not have the same privileges and I am not looked after by the estate in the same way, like being driven to London or driven somewhere to pick things up.’

Ms Juggernauth-Sharma – known as wifelet number 68 – along with Amanda Doyle, a former music producer, and artist Mariella Antonella were living in cottages owned by Longleat in the nearby village of Horningsham when the former Lord Bath died of Covid. 

He left £23million in his will (£14.4million after taxes) but most of it went to his widow and their children – with nothing for his mistresses.

Sources close to the estate, which has been home to the Marquesses of Bath since the 1600s and includes the famous safari park, claim that, following his father’s death, the new Lord Bath was determined that the remaining wifelets should leave.

One insider said that shortly after Alexander died, ‘letters were issued to the wifelets asking them to leave their properties’.

‘I heard that Trudi showed their legal team a letter saying she had a right to stay in her cottage and they didn’t bother her again, while the others apparently fought for a share of money they believed was due to them,’ the source added.

Another said: ‘We all knew Ceawlin was desperate to get rid of the wifelets as soon as his father died.’

Ms Doyle – wifelet number 69 – is understood to have received a financial settlement after making a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act. 

It states that those who were financially dependent on the deceased can claim against their estate for financial provision – or further money if the provision in the will is inadequate.

One local said Ms Doyle left her secluded detached cottage ‘in the dead of night’ last Christmas, ‘leaving furniture and a right mess which had to be put in a skip’. 

The house now sits empty, with weeds thigh-high in its gardens and a broken gate and archway leading to covered steps up to the property.

Ms Antonella, who had lived in her walled Georgian house for several decades, is said to have moved out around a year earlier. Speculation is rife that she also received a ‘sizeable sum’. 

Another villager said: ‘I don’t know the ins and out but I know they both said Alexander had given them the houses and Ceawlin didn’t want them there. Whether he paid them off or not, I don’t know. But none of us think they would have gone of their own free will.’

Ms Juggernauth-Sharma, who claims to have been Lord Bath’s girlfriend since 1998 when she saw him swallowing a mackerel whole at a party, lives rent-free and said she had no plans to move out, adding: ‘I have been to Longleat a couple of times since he died but last time I paid the £40 entry fee.’

She said the other two mistresses ‘saw her and each other as rivals’, adding: ‘I tried to be friendly... but they did not want that.’

The Longleat estate did not respond to a request to comment, while Ms Doyle and Ms Antonella could not be reached.