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Eccentric aristocrat Sir Benjamin Slade, who once placed an advertisement for a wife who could provide him with two sons, appears to have found the answer to his prayers.
I hear the baronet, 75, a keen shot who has 80 firearms on display in his bar room has got engaged to a poet/composer 46 years his junior. There are rumours the wedding will take place shortly at Maunsel House, his 2,000-acre Somerset pile.
His fiancee is Sahara Sunday Spain, daughter of Johnny Spain, a member of the Black Panthers who was jailed for murder. It s all top secret because Ben s relations are furious, one of his friends tells me. They re very suspicious, because it s all happened in such a hurry.