Charles Spencer has taken
to Twitter to share a very rare personal message with his fans.
The 58-year-old – the younger
brother of the late Princess Diana – is a father to seven children,
and it was his pride in youngest son Edmund that prompted the tweet.
In a loving message, Charles
explained: “I don’t normally bore people about my children, but forgive me
for being so very proud of my son, Ned, who got his A level results today: they
were much better than his school predicted, and they mean he goes to his first
choice of university. A reward for proper hard work.”
Ned – The Honourable Edmund
Spencer – was born in October 2003 to Charles and his second wife, Caroline
Freud. The couple were married from 2001 until 2007 and also welcomed daughter
Lady Lara, now 16, during their marriage.
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Charles shared a personal tweet in celebration of his son’s achievement
Charles is also a father to
four children from his first marriage (1989 – 1997) to Victoria Lockwood; three
daughters and one son. They are Lady Kitty Spencer, Lady Eliza Spencer, Lady
Katya Spencer and Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp.
Louis is heir apparent to the
Spencer family estate, Althorp, where Charles currently lives with his third
wife Karen Gordon and their daughter, ten-year-old Lady Charlotte Diana.
Charles
inherited Althorp estate when he was 27 as the eldest male in the Spencer
family, following the death of his own father, John. It was then that he also
succeeded as the 9th Earl Spencer.
The Spencer family’s ancestral
home in Northamptonshire boasts 90 rooms and some 550 acres – and was where
Princess Diana grew up with her three siblings, prior to her 1981 marriage
to Prince Charles.
Following her death, Diana was
laid to rest on a small island in the grounds of Althorp, located in the middle
of the ornamental Round Oval Lake.
