Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, and his wife Karen Gordon are divorcing after 13 years of marriage.
“It is immensely sad,” the 9th Earl Spencer, 60, told.
“I just want to devote myself to all my children, and to my grandchildren, and I wish Karen every happiness in the future.”
In April, Charles Spencer and Karen Gordon reportedly announced their split to the staff at Althorp estate, where Princess Diana, who died in 1997, is buried.
Spencer and Gordon, who met on a blind date in 2010, got married in June 2011 on the Althorp estate.
They share a 12-year-old daughter named Charlotte Diana, honoring Spencer’s late sister. Spencer has four children from his first marriage to Victoria Lockwood and two from his second marriage to Caroline Freud.
Karen has two daughters from her previous marriage to Hollywood producer Mark Gordon.
A source claimed Spencer and Karen’s relationship fell apart as he was writing his memoir in which he detailslosing his virginity to a sex worker at age 12 and the traumatic physical and sexual abuse he suffered as a child in boarding school.
Spencer said he was sexually abused by a female nurse assistant at the school, who he referred to as a “master of manipulation,” when he was 11.
“This woman’s control over mesmerized boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth and desperate for her affection,” Spencer’s writing continued.
The outlet reports he also claimed that his five years of writing his upcoming memoir,
“A Very Private School,” greatly affected him and pushed him to seek residential trauma treatment last year.
It’s heartening to hear that Karen has been supportive of Spencer during such a difficult time. Having a supportive partner can make a significant difference in someone’s healing journey.
“I think it was very challenging for her to have a husband going through what was essentially four and a half years of the most profound therapy with very difficult undertones to it. And she supported the idea of me doing it,” he said.
“I think she always hoped I would come out happier and healthier and that seems to be the case very much. So, I’m grateful to have her standing by me while I went through this, what I now realize was an essential process.”
