Marquess of Bath wins High Court bid to allow his surrogate-born son to inherit part of his £157million family fortune

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.

The nine-year-old is genetically the son of the 51-year-old Marquess – also known

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