Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer - Personal Life

Personal Life

On 16 September 1989, Spencer, then known by the courtesy title of Lord Althorp, married (Catherine) Victoria Lockwood (b. 1965), a model. The wedding was held at the Church of St Mary, Great Brington, and Darius Guppy was the best man. Two nieces, Emily McCorquodale and The Hon. Eleanor Fellowes, were bridesmaids. Two of his nephews, Prince Harry of Wales and The Hon. Alexander Fellowes (son of Lord and Lady Fellowes), were pages. Spencer and Lockwood, who had moved to Cape Town, South Africa, were divorced on 3 December 1997. Diana's death occurred while the divorce case was in progress; shortly after his divorce, the Earl moved back to the United Kingdom. Earl Spencer has four children by Victoria Lockwood, three daughters and one son:

• Lady Kitty Eleanor Spencer, born (1990-12-28) 28 December 1990 (age 21);
• Lady Eliza Victoria Spencer, born (1992-07-10) 10 July 1992 (age 20);
• Lady (Katya) Amelia Spencer, born (1992-07-10) 10 July 1992 (age 20);
• Louis Frederick John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, born (1994-03-14) 14 March 1994 (age 18), and heir to the earldom.

On 15 December 2001, he married Caroline Freud (née Hutton), who worked in public relations before becoming a part-time teacher. Earl Spencer has two children by Caroline, from whom he separated in 2007 and since divorced:

• The Hon. Edmund Charles Spencer, born (2003-10-06) 6 October 2003 (age 9);
• Lady Lara Caroline Spencer, born (2006-03-16) 16 March 2006 (age 6).

Charles Spencer married Canadian philanthropist Karen Gordon (née Villeneuve), the founder and chief executive of Whole Child International, a Los Angeles-based charity which works to improve the lot of orphaned, abandoned, or abused children. on 18 June 2011 at Althorp House. They have one child together :

• Lady Charlotte Diana Spencer, born (2012-07-30) 30 July 2012 (age 0)

Charles chose to name his fifth daughter after his late sister, Diana, Princess of Wales. The Earl was reported to have said, "We hadn't settled on a first name before the birth, but Charlotte is a name we both love, and it really suits her. We knew that as soon as we saw her. And though it's been 15 years since Diana died, I still miss her every day and I wanted her commemorated in the naming of our daughter."

The Earl resides at his ancestral seat, Althorp House.

Lord Spencer attended the wedding of his nephew and niece-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011. Neither Prince Harry, nor the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended Charles' third wedding.