8th Marquess of Bath's surrogacy son allowed to inherit family fortune

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8th Marquess of Bath's surrogacy son allowed to inherit family fortune
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Henry Thynn, the son of Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath and Emma, Marchioness of Bath, is set to inherit a share of the £157million family fortune after winning a legal battle to challenge the historical definition of a legitimate child.

An aristocrat has won his legal battle to allow his son born by surrogacy to inherit the £157million family fortune. Ceawlin Thynn, the 8th Marquess of Bath and owner of the Longleat estate, had his second son with wife Emma, Marchioness of Bath, in 2016 via a surrogate after she suffered from a rare inflammatory condition during her first pregnancy.

Henry Thynn was born to a surrogate mother in America, raising concern about his eligibility to benefit from three family trusts because of the historical definition of a legitimate child. At the High Court, Lord Bath had asked for a 'blessing' to allow Henry to potentially inherit a share of the fortune.

On Thursday, Mr Justice Matthews ruled that it would be 'unfair on Lord Bath and on Henry' to treat the boy as though he were not his father's son. Henry is the son of Lord and Lady Bath. Not only is he treated by them and will be treated by the world in general as a child of Lord and Lady Bath's marriage but he is also their genetic child

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