Emma Weymouth's and her husband, Ceawlin Thynne, are a lovely couple in my opinion, judging from the documentary I said I watched. I don't know them personally, of course.
Ceawlin had an awful childhood - his father is bonkers and had dozens of "wifelets" which drove Ceawlin's mother away to live in France, and Ceawlin and his sister were sent to the local comprehensive school where they were bullied. Ceawlin said on camera that he madly envied the local lads who lived in the village in ordinary little cottages because they could have lives of freedom with 2 normal parents. He went back to a huge frightening home with a frightening father, a succession of weird women turning up for sex, and no childhood.
I think he felt he would never meet anyone who would want to marry him and take on the burden of Longleat which struggles to keep going, with the addition of a mad parent of 80+ years living in the attic who refuses to cooperate with anything the son suggests, who still has various "wifelets" coming to visit, who threw a complete tantrum when his son wanted to remove the badly painted pornographic panels he had attached all around several of the ancient rooms in the house (Longleat is not far from me, I know it quite well - have seen the porno panels - so badly painted. Poor Ceawlin had to sleep with those around his bed as a child!)
Poor Emma suffered horrendous racial abuse from her mother-in-law-to-be when Ceawlin proposed, because the woman said that Ceawlin would be "diluting the blood line of centuries" by marrying a woman of colour. They went ahead anyway.
She nearly died having their son and had to spend months in hospital after the birth.
I think as a couple they are doing a grand job and I hope she does well in Strictly.
I hope he and the lovely Emma have a happy life and that she does well in Strictly.
