A BOOK detailing Lord Bath's thoughts on religion, marriage and politics is being launched this month.

The book, The New World Order of Alexander Thynn, compiles a series of Lord Bath's essays, including one on the meaning of life.

His controversial views on multiple wives are spelled out in detail and other topics covered in the book are motherhood, world government and the abolition of hereditary peers.

This is the fourth book Lord Bath has had published.

Lord Bath's home, Longleat House, stars in the latest Bollywood film, Mohabbatein, which opened in UK cinemas at the end of last month.

Camera crews from major Indian film company Yah Raj Films descended on the Longleat estate, near Warminster, in March for the three-week shoot.