{"id":2181865,"date":"2025-11-30T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2181865"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:37:06","slug":"british-baronet-sir-benjamin-slade-seeks-good-breeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/british-baronet-sir-benjamin-slade-seeks-good-breeder\/","title":{"rendered":"British baronet Sir Benjamin Slade seeks &#8216;good breeder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2Fcomp-british-baronet-searches-good-116443984.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He has a 1,300-acre estate and a nine-month supply of frozen sperm \u2014 now he just needs a \u201cgood breeder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir Benjamin Slade, 79, of Britain has made Tinder accounts, taken out newspaper ads and starred in a TV series all in an effort to find a wife to produce an heir \u2014 and a spare \u2014 for his multimillion-dollar fortune.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sir Benjamin Slade, posing on his estate in 2025, is looking for a baby mama to give him a son.  <span class=\"credit\">SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The baronet \u2014 a title just below baron and above most knights \u2014 revived his decades-long search for a spouse this week, listing a bizarre range of requirements for any future bride.<\/p>\n<p>Scorpios, Guardian news-outlet readers and people from countries beginning with the letter \u2018I\u2019 or with green in the flag need not apply, Sir Benjamin said. <\/p>\n<p>A helicopter license and legal expertise would be useful, he said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>And obviously, he\u2019s searching for a woman three to four decades younger for his main need: ensuring his estate gets passed along to his spawn while marrying their mom to fully secure the deal. He added that if his future wife has a daughter somewhere in between, that\u2019s OK with him, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The baronet\u2019s family has owned his historic 1,300-acre property since 1772.  <span class=\"credit\">SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou want a new car, you get a new car, not some old banger,\u201d the lesser noble said in an interview with the UK\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sir-benjamin-slade-i-am-going-to-be-a-mega-megastar-815130.html\">Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Benjamin is the seventh Baronet of Maunsel House \u2014 holding the lowest hereditary title in the British honor hierarchy \u2014 and has been searching for a wife for decades to bear his sons.<\/p>\n<p>The baronet was previously married to Pauline Myburgh but divorced her in 1991, claiming her 17 cats were too much for him to manage. The couple never had children.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The controversial aristocrat just revived his decades-long appeal to find bride decades younger. <span class=\"credit\">SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After successful IVF treatment, he fathered a daughter with American poet Sahara Sunday Spain in 2021 but then called off two weddings with her and doesn\u2019t have contact with his child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable after everything that\u2019s happened, he\u2019s still talking about wanting babies,\u201d Spain told the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/daily-mail\/20220409\/282196539483609?srsltid=AfmBOor4ucpC9s4bMGbcT3p2BDilQTwWzCgnLzuIH0bytYAqkVyctbQA\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maunsel House near Bridgwater, Somerset, in Britain belongs to Sir Benjamin.  <span class=\"credit\">SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new lady of Sir Benjamin\u2019s house would receive an annual salary of 50,000 British pounds \u2014 or a little more than $66,000 \u2014 with housing and meals included, although the Baronet is struggling with liquidity and would prefer if his wife had wealth of her own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little private capital and income would be helpful. A large fortune would be more helpful!\u201d reads Sir Benjamin\u2019s list.<\/p>\n<p>The baronet is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/oap-millionaires-utterly-shameful-act-36245561\">reportedly in talks<\/a> to sell his grand estate, which his family has owned since 1772, to a luxury hotel group. He previously rented out his estate for weddings, but the business took a massive hit during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has a 1,300-acre estate and a nine-month supply of frozen sperm \u2014 now he just needs a \u201cgood breeder.\u201d Sir Benjamin Slade, 79, of Britain has made Tinder accounts, taken out newspaper ads and starred in a TV series all in an effort to find a wife to produce an heir \u2014 and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2181866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[372564,23898,21741,420369,22814],"class_list":["post-2181865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-british","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-estates","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/British-baronet-Sir-Benjamin-Slade-seeks-good-breeder.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181867,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181865\/revisions\/2181867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}