The brother of Princess Diana, Earl Charles Spencer, has announced the “immensely sad” news he is divorcing his third wife after 13 years of marriage.
Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, has spoken about the growing concerns surrounding Princess Kate’s whereabouts.
Spencer touched on the conspiracy theories over what happened to the Princess of Wales following her planned abdominal surgery.
“I do worry about what happened to the truth,” he said.
The 59-year-old then compared the “online kind of conspiracy” to the level of “press intrusion” Princess Diana experienced.
Before her tragic death in 1997, Princess Diana’s car was being chased by paparazzi.
“If I look back to ’97 and Diana’s death, I think that was so shocking, the circumstance of her death was so shocking, that it did make the industry that supports the paparazzi really consider more carefully what it could and couldn’t do,” he said.
The younger brother of the late Princess Diana told the Daily Mail on Saturday “it is immensely sad”.
The couple announced their divorce to staff at Althorp, the Spencer family estate in Northamptonshire in March.
It is understood the ninth Earl Spencer’s marriage began to break down as he was writing his painful memoir detailing the sexual abuse he suffered during his time at boarding school.
Charles Spencer has moved to divorce his third wife Karen Gordon after 13 years of marriage. Picture: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images
“I just want to devote myself to all my children, and to my grandchildren, and I wish Karen every happiness in the future,” Spencer said.
Ms Gordon, a Canadian philanthropist, and Spencer were married in June 2011 on the grounds of Althrop where his older sister and mother of Prince William and Harry is buried.
They first met on a blind date in Los Angeles the year before they got married, in 2010.
The couple announced their divorce to staff at Althorp, the Spencer family estate in Northamptonshire in March. Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
The pair share a 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte Diana.
Spencer has four other children from his first marriage with Victoria Lockwood and two children with his second wife, Caroline Freud.
Speaking in 2020 to The Sunday Times, Spencer said he and Ms Gordon both appreciated “what the other does” and look after what they had.
“Neither of us has found happiness like this before,” he said.
It is understood the ninth Earl Spencer’s marriage began to break down as he was writing his painful memoir. Picture: Earl Charles Spencer
His wife’s absence from at Althrop and Spencer House in London in mid-March was felt when the Earl held a book launch for “A Very Private School”.
Spencer told the Daily Mail the five years he had spent on it deeply affected him and led to him seeking treatment for trauma.
He was left traumatised after the discovery of his 1976 school diary where he had alleged his assistant matron sexually abused him.
Sky News host Sharri Markson says Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, is expected to give evidence in a tribunal today where he will address claims of a “BBC cover-up” around his sister’s bombshell Panorama interview.
“She famously told Martin Bashir just how many people were in her marriage to the Prince,” Ms Markson said.
In a March interview with People, Spencer said how “supportive” Ms Gordon was throughout his road to trauma recovery.
“I think it was very challenging for her to have a husband going through what was essentially four and a half years of the most profound therapy with very difficult undertones to it. And she supported the idea of me doing it,” he said.
“I think she always hoped I would come out happier and healthier and that seems to be the case very much.
“I’m grateful to have her standing by me while I went through this, what I now realise was an essential process.”