Couple who became TikTok stars with their renovation of an abandoned 7-bedroom Victorian home have SPLIT - and there's a surprising plan for who gets to keep the mansion 50%
By Nick Craven0%
6/24/2026, 8:21:40 AM
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A young couple whose renovation of a huge seven-bedroom Victorian home became an internet sensation have split up.
Milly Davies and Louis Morgan amassed millions of followers across Instagram, YouTube and TikTok with their extensive refurbishment of a sprawling former bishop's home in Swansea over the past 18 months.
But on Sunday, tearful law graduate Milly, 28, posted a new video to their YouTube account, Belgrave Villa, titled 'We broke up'.
She revealed she will now buy the house which, as the Daily Mail revealed last year, is solely owned by Louis, the 29-year-old son of a local property magnate and hotelier.
She told their heartbroken followers: 'I am going to keep the house, and I'm going to keep the channel going.'
She also revealed Louis's absence from recent videos of the work on the house was because he had been 'travelling with friends' in Australia.
She said it took 'a long time to figure out' who was going to keep the house and she had to organise meetings with mortgage advisers and accountants.
After the breakup announcement the video changed to an awkward final return of Louis to the 'show', with him being shown work which Milly (or her contractors) had completed in his absence.
Then the scene switched to a semi-derelict art gallery down the road, which viewers were told would be Louis's next project.
He signed off with, 'I don't know what to say… other than it's a shame we don't get to carry on really, but it's just the way of life.'
The couple ended the video with a fist bump.
Milly Davies and Louis Morgan amassed millions of followers with their extensive refurbishment of a sprawling former bishop's home in Swansea over the past 18 months
On Sunday, tearful law graduate Milly, 28, posted a new video entitled simply 'We broke up' and revealing that she will now buy the house
The couple's journey on Instagram (1.9million followers), YouTube (484k subscribers) and TikTok (397k) chronicled the ups and downs of their project, which was a 'huge risk' according to Milly, when they 'got the keys' to the sprawling house in March 2024.
While the videos are undeniably well-produced and entertaining, and the pair have made fascinating historical finds as they peeled back the layers of the Victorian house, some viewers asked questions that weren't fully answered in the posts.
Namely: How on earth did a couple of twenty-somethings afford to buy it in the first place?
The truth was, according to Land Registry records, Milly didn't actually own any of the house at all.
It all belongs to Louis, whose father, Martin is a multi-millionaire entrepreneur hotelier and property magnate.
Martin owns the splendid four-star 'boutique' Morgans Hotel in Swansea and is a part-owner and director of Championship side Swansea City FC.
Martin, 62, also set up Wales's largest independent travel agency, Travel House, recently sold to Hays Travel for an undisclosed sum.
His other interests include a trade park, hotels, advertising and a construction company.
Young Louis is a director of no fewer than 12 companies himself, including the hotel, though in every single case, according to Companies House records, his father is also listed as a co-director.
And Milly, who graduated with a law degree from the University of Bristol in 2018, also comes from a wealthy background.
She told their heartbroken followers: 'I am going to keep the house, and I'm going to keep the channel going'
Photos from her Instagram show the couple jetting off on luxury holidays, meeting elephants in Thailand, skiing in the French alps and sunning themselves in the Maldives.
Milly's own father Robert, the managing director of Dubai-based Depa Interiors, fits out luxury five-star hotels in Dubai, while her mother Emma is HR director at UAE bottled water firm Masafi.
She also manages the company's Real Estate portfolio of over 400 units, a private investment business, and several other retail businesses.
And the Bishop's house that the couple 'took a huge risk on'?
It was bought with no sign of a mortgage for £410,000 in March 2024, despite being on the market a year earlier for £700,000.
Milly admitted that her own part in the enterprise has been secondary to that of Louis, who 'has some experience, but I'm learning along the way.'
She worked full time while the renovation was in its early stages, but still posted on LinkedIn: 'Whether it's stripping wallpaper, sourcing vintage tiles, or learning to tile a bathroom (the hard way), I'm here to make the process both transparent and entertaining.'
But a cursory glance at the many stills and videos posted by the couple would give the casual observer the impression that the pair are doing the majority of the work themselves, with builders and tradesmen only playing the occasional cameo role.
And not all the viewers are as enthusiastic as they are, judging from some of the comments on their @Belgravevilla Instagram account.
One, for example, asked Milly sarcastically: 'Did you completely empty your trust fund babes?'
Another: 'Is kinda funny 27 and 26 buying a million dollar home.
It's kinda funny when she said risk like papa and mama trusted us with the money lol.'
One peeved follower from Australia even decided to report the couple to the local building control officers in Swansea, claiming the damp-proofing on their bathroom didn't comply with regulations (it did, at least UK regulations, which are less stringent than those Down Under).
The canny couple certainly used every influencer's trick to cut costs by partnering with firms supplying power tools, interior furnishings, and even Milly's boots and workwear.
But the scale of the transformation was way beyond the scope of amateurs, however talented.
Still the couple attracted publicity from as far afield as US magazine Newsweek, which reported on the various artefacts they discovered during the renovation, describing the house as 'derelict' which did not appear to be the case on estate agent's particulars.
'We found a World War II helmet insert while unblocking a doorway that had been covered with brickwork, and a certificate of authenticity for a piece of the cross of Christ,' Milly told the magazine.
'We also came across a newspaper article from 1925 while lifting floorboards in the master bedroom.
It centred around the death of Alexandra of Denmark, queen consort to the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910.'
The house was built in the 1800s as a private home, but over the years has also been a doctor's surgery and then a bishop's house.
The couple bought it from the Catholic Church.
It includes a cellar, extensive grounds and an old stable.
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