Emma’s Longleat fright nights

YOU may think living in 130room Longleat House would have been a joy for the Marchioness of Bath, Emma Thynn, right, but I hear she has to sleep with the TV on – to drown out the haunting sounds of ghosts. One of the spirits is a former viscountess who haunts the Wiltshire stately home as t he Green Lady. Other ghostly goings-on involve murdered manservants and massacred monks. I’m not surprised to hear Lady Bath has to find a way to drown out things that go bump in the night, but I do wonder why she went on one of the historical house’s famous ghost t ours! A source tells me: ‘When the tour ended, the other visitors got to go home but Lady Bath had to stay and sleep there! ‘It’s huge, with lots of draughts and creaks. You can hear the lions in the safari park, but it’s the other noises at night that terrify her most.’