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...Spencer says he is impoverished from inheritance taxes and the cost of visitors to the family estate in Althorp. Many view his claim as an excuse not to give Lockwood a divorce settlement...
...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...
Meanwhile, Althorp is not a burden the earl can avoid. The maintenance, costing some $700,000 a year, is enormous, and revenue for the compound has come mostly from renting out portions of it for corporate entertaining. Rumor said that Spencer was thinking about building houses and, astonishingly, a superstore on the estate to add to its earning potential. "Althorp," notes Brooks-Baker, "is not a place you leave...
...keep his moving promise to involve himself in the lives of Princes William and Harry. Spencer was not always the most generous brother to Diana. In 1993 he reportedly rescinded an offer he had made to let her use the Garden House, a four-bedroom property at Althorp. She had hoped to create a cozy escape from the pressures of London. The first letter Diana sent to Earl Spencer pleading her case was returned to her unopened. A second was never answered...
Earl Spencer ultimately decided his sister's presence would bring too much commotion to Althorp. But now her legacy to him is celebrity. And the world is watching...