Word: althorp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oxford chum Darius Guppy, who was later imprisoned for staging a jewelry theft intended to collect $2.8 million in insurance money from Lloyd's of London. Spencer has stuck by Guppy, first supplying half his bail and later allowing the former convict to live in a house on the Althorp estate, the family's Northamptonshire ancestral seat...
...number of nannies came through Park House and later Althorp, where the children moved with their father in 1975. According to biographer Andrew Morton in Diana: Her True Story, the future 9th Earl did not sit down to a meal with his father in the downstairs dining room until he was seven. The arrival of a new mistress in 1977 brought no burst of happiness to the manor. Charles first discovered that his father had married Raine, the former Countess of Dartmouth and daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland, from his headmaster at boarding school. He and Diana quickly came...
After his father's death in 1992, Spencer spoke openly in the press about his distaste for Raine, likening her redecoration of Althorp to "the wedding-cake vulgarity of a five-star hotel in Monaco." This, as well as the Lasson episode, was one of the many instances in which Spencer, like the Princess of Wales, used the media to his advantage, despite a long-expressed loathing of its intrusiveness. In fact, after university, Spencer joined the press corps, taking a job as a light-news correspondent on NBC's Today show, for which he reported directly from the wedding...
...question now is, What course will Spencer's life take next? At his father's death he inherited the family's 8,500-acre Althorp estate, complete with a 121-room house, but he left England last year for Cape Town, South Africa. Lockwood and the children--Kitty, Katya, Eliza and Louis--are there too, although the couple are separated and planning to divorce. Proceedings scheduled to begin last week have been postponed. In Cape Town Spencer has found himself the subject of some scandal. He had been seeing South African fashion designer Chantal Collopy, whose husband brought suit against...