Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charles Spencer should have been a Tudor. The members of that English royal dynasty, now extinct, excelled at passionate rhetoric, just like that provided by the earl in his unforgettable eulogy at the funeral of his sister Diana. The Tudors too were embroiled in endless marital controversies, though Spencer cannot end his with the finality available to Henry VIII--the thud of the headsman's ax. Still, one may wonder if Spencer was trying to display a similarly majestic, if less fatal, gesture--whether his righteous bombast against the media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self...
...Spencer's marriage to the former model Victoria Lockwood fell apart three years ago. But only last week did the two parties engage in bitter court battle to decide whether their divorce should proceed in Britain or in South Africa, where both now reside. Lockwood, who wants the case moved back to Britain, claimed that the couple did not expect to live permanently in South Africa and that Spencer had lied about his reasons for moving the family there in the first place. He said, she said, that the move was to allow their children to escape the glare...
...British tabloids are reporting that Spencer barred his wife from Diana's funeral and refused to pay her airfare...
...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...
...Fall of Spencer At Princess Diana?s funeral, Earl Spencer was the people's hero ? sticking it to the monarchy and the press. But the British public has rounded on Earl Spencer following revelations brought to light in his messy divorce...