Truly Scrumptious the children leave, she watches them and sings about her love for Caractacus ("Lovely Lonely Man") before returning to her family mansion. The next day Truly and the Potts family encounter some unexpected and comical attempts to take their car, before being overtaken by the airship belonging to Baron Bomburst, the ruler of Vulgaria. The Baron wants Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for his own, and kidnapped Caractacus' father under the mistaken impression that he is the one who created the unusual car. The airship is returning to Vulgaria with Grandpa Potts, where the Baron plans to hold him hostage until
Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 7th Baron Leconfield, 2nd Baron Egremont (born 21 April 1948) generally known simply as Max Egremont, is a British biographer and novelist. Egremont is the eldest son of John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield and 1st Baron Egremont, and Pamela Wyndham-Quin, and succeeded his father in 1972. He is a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham. He married Caroline Nelson, the garden designer, in 1978 and they have four children, three daughters and a son. He lives at the family seat of Petworth House in Sussex, which his family