One member of the party, channelling the Marquess of Bath, had gone for "wifelet."

A jealous "wifelet" of the practising polygamist Lord Bath has been arrested after fighting with a love rival.

He does not believe in Christian marriage, favoring polygamy, and he seems to have invented the term wifelet to describe members of his harem.

Wifette ought to serve better than wifelet , but, in Britain at least, the stress would shift to the second syllable, obscuring the head word.

“All this wifelet nonsense...

It was this sad story that triggered the scrap between Doyle and the marvellously named Trudie Juggernauth-Sharma, wifelet number 68.

Not only is watching Vivien Leigh play goody-goody wifelet a lot less fun than watching her play crazy freewheeling nympho, it's also wrong.

That would be Trudie Juggernauth-Sharma, estranged 68th wifelet, the Queen Bee of Longleat who met Lord Bath in 1988.

In June, it was the wifelets’ anger that boiled over when, after Sunday lunch, Trudie was allegedly punched by a wifelet who’d been inviting her and a third party to bed.

In stature the Manlet was dwarfishNo burly big Blunderbore he: And he wearily gazed on the crawfish His Wifelet had dressed for his tea.

In France, while proud of Carla’s elegance, gossipy commentators sniggered at her attempt to look like a demure wifelet for the British royal family: Bruni, the former man-eating rock chick?

Two of them recently got into a fight, causing one long-term mistress to leave, but the “Loins of Longleat” has replenished his stocks with a box-fresh wifelet whom he met on the internet, causing yet more consternation.

Trierweiler, who is neither an unapologetic career-woman nor a devoted wifelet who has forsaken her own ambitions for the sake of her man (and, by extension, the country) poses an impossible conundrum for the electorate.

MARQUESS OF BATH's latest number one wifelet TRUDI JUGGERNAUT Thank you for stopping by.

It was the Marquess’s original idea for each of his wifelets to bear him a child and then raise them all, commune-style, at Longleat (he has only had one child this way, though, and that particular wifelet is no longer on the scene).