THe new owners of Brocket Hall

in Hertfordshire are offering a free glass of champagne and a night’s stay to all of the 8,338 ‘Brocket Babes’ born there between 1940 and 1948 when the stately home was a maternity hospital. Lord Brocket was forced to let out his ancestral home on a 60-year lease when he was jailed for fraud in 1996.