Diana's brother Charles Spencer's 'immensely sad' reason for divorce from third wife
Earl Spencer has announced the devastating news he has split from wife Karen Gordon, after naming their daughter after his late sister Princess Diana
Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer has announced the "immensely sad" news he is getting divorced.
Earl Spencer, who is uncle to Prince William and Prince Harry, revealed he has split from Karen Gordon, the Countess of Spencer, after 13 years together.
The former couple got married in June 2011 in the grouns of Althorp, which hold a special meaning for Charles as it's the burial place of his beloved sister Diana.
Canadian Gordon, 52, is founder and chief executive of Whole Child International, an LA-based charity that works to improve the lives of orphaned, abandoned and abused children.
Charles, 60, revealed the heartbreaking reason behind their divorce, which comes after he spoke out about the sickening physical and sexual abuse he suffered at boarding school in his memoir.
"It is immensely sad," he told the Mail on Sunday. "I just want to devote myself to all my children, and to my grandchildren, and I wish Karen every happiness in the future."
Spencer and Gordon, who met on a blind date in LA in 2010, were married in June 2011, just four months after he proposed.
They have 12-year-old daughter together named Charlotte Diana, in tribute to the Earl's late sister.
Karen has two daughter from a previous marriage to Hollywood producer Mark Gordon, while Spencer has seven children in total.
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He has four children from his marriage to first wife Victoria Lockwood, whose marriage ended in December 1997, the same year Diana died.
They are Lady Kitty Eleanor Spencer, Lady Eliza Victoria Spencerm Lady Amelia Spencer and Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp.
The Earl didn't attend Kitty and Amelia's weddings in 2021 and 2023 amid claims his relationship with his elder children had "cooled".
Spencer also had two children with second wife Caroline Freud, who are The Honourable Edmund Spencer and Lady Lara Caroline Spencer.
It's believed his marriage to Gordon was strained by his memoir, A Very Private School, in which he detailed the physical and sexual abuse he suffered while at boarding school.
He wrote about the "hellish experience" of being abused by an assistant matron at Maidwell Hall when he was a child in the 1970s.
Charles told The Sunday Times in 2020: “Karen and I both appreciate what the other does and look after what we have. Neither of us has found happiness like this before.”
