He’s 70. He owns two homes; one of them is Maunsel House, a 13th-century manor in Somerset, England. He is desperate for an heir.
And he’s “interviewing” for a new wife…
“I am interviewing hard. I have had a few proposals, but sometimes the women are past their sell-by date and have been over the guns a few times,” Sir Benjamin Slade told The Daily Mail.
Yes, he is a ‘sir’. He is a descendant from King Charles II, King Henry I and King Geroge IV.
Yes, the manor comes with 100 acres of sprawling lawn with duck ponds, ponies, holiday cottages, lodges, possibly unicorns, definitely a band of Merry Men.
And no, he’s not joking. “She is 50, so too old to have children,” he said of of one of his ex-girlfriends, businesswoman Bridget Convey.
He wants someone “fit” and down to party. “I have two castles. I am like a feudal prince when it comes to throwing parties.”
Oh, and you can’t be ‘crazy’. He said another of his ex-girlfriends, who left him for a handyman in 2011, was” already showing signs of madness”.
(Says the guy who once issued a 1,000 pound reward for anyone who could capture a beaver, dead or alive. What?)