Nothing seems easy in life Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and younger brother of the late Princess Lady Di. Now just announced yeshis divorce from Karen Gordon to ‘Mail on Sunday’ after 13 years of marriage and a … good number of personal traumas that have affected their existence.
“It’s immensely sad,” Charles Spencer, 60, told the aforementioned media. «I just want to dedicate myself to all my children and my grandchildren, and lI wish Karen all the happiness in the future.«He added with regret.
Charles’ relationship with the Countess of Spencer, 52, came to an end while writing his memoirs‘A very private school’, still unpublished and which has aroused great expectation given the turbulent and unfortunate life of Lady Di’s brother.
The ex-couple has already communicated in April their separation to the staff of Althorp House, the ancestral home of Charles Spencer, although it has not been until now that the news of the divorce has been publicly known.
‘Mail on Sunday’ also talks about the eventual appearance of another woman in the life of Diana’s brother, Norwegian archaeologist Cat Jarmanwho presents the history podcast ‘The Rabbit Hole Detectives’ with him, highlighting that “they seem very happy together, although it is early” to venture into more hypotheses.
Charles and the philanthropist Karen were married on June 18, 2011 at Althorp House just two months after the high-profile royal wedding in which they were involved. his nephew, Prince William, and Kate Middleton.
The historic English estate, where Charles and his sister Diana grew up, became the couple’s residence after her marriage. The two share a 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte Diana, whose middle name pays tribute to Lady Di.
Karen also has two grown daughters from her previous marriage to Hollywood producer Mark Gordon, while Charles –with two other divorces behind him– has four children with his first wife, Victoria Lockwood, and two children with his second wife, Caroline Freud.
The traumas that plague Charles Spencer
The news of his new divorce has caused some surprise, since not too long ago, in 2020, he declared: «Karen and I appreciate what the other does and we take care of what we have. None of us had found happiness like this before”.
The writing of the Memoirs could have been another cause of the couple’s distance, since during this process they could have reopened old wounds in the protagonist. Charles Spencer has confessed in ‘Daily Mail’ that the five years of work invested in the book affected their mental health and was forced to undergo treatment at the end of last year.
In the book he confesses that he suffered sexual abuse by a babysitter who attended to him. He also talks about trauma he suffered after his mother abandoned both him and Diana of Wales when Charles was barely three years old and how the fact that he was raised by several nannies affected him.
Charles came to confess in all crudeness how those terrible experiences from his childhood have ended up affecting his personal life and social and romantic relationships. “I think I opted for beautiful people who didn’t like love very much,” she noted.
