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All change at Longleat. S01e02. Documentaire.

Documentary following one of the country's most extraordinary aristocratic families and the people who work for them.

Over the past generation, the British aristocracy has suddenly got serious. The outrageous show-offs, the raging cocaine addicts snorting thousands of acres of Grade 1 farmland up their noses… they’re on the way out. That was the problem with All Change at Longleat (BBC One) – the new generation of aristocrats is just far too normal to make good telly.
The ideal TV character at Longleat is the Marquess of Bath – he of the flamboyant kaftans and the 73 wifelets sharing his bed on a hectic rota system. But Lord Bath is now 83 and his two wifelets in the programme – Trudie Juggernauth-Sharma and Sylvana Henriques, a former Bond girl – were getting on a bit, too.
Today, Lord Bath’s son, 41-year-old Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, is in charge of the Elizabethan stately home and its 9,000 acres, which include its famous safari park. He was diffident, polite, in a grey flannel suit and happily married; ie no wifelets and no kaftans. In other words, a sympathetic soul but one who makes for disappointing telly.

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