Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, DL, is a British peer, author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and is the maternal uncle of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry. He has restored Althorp, the family’s ancestral seat in Northamptonshire, since 2009.
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Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, DL, is a British peer, author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and is the maternal uncle of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry. He was educated at Eton College and read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. Spencer worked as an on-air correspondent with NBC News from 1986 to 1995, primarily for the network’s morning programme, Today, and NBC Nightly News. He also presented the 12-part documentary series Great Houses of the World for NBC Super Channel. Spencer delivered the eulogy at Diana’s funeral service held at Westminster Abbey six days later.
He has restored Althorp, the family’s ancestral seat in Northamptonshire, since 2009, re-roofing it and restoring its entire exterior for the first time since the 1780s. Spencer has written several book reviews for The Guardian and The Independent on Sunday as well as feature stories for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and American publications such as Vanity Fair, Verandah and Nest. Spencer received an apology from Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, in late 2020 for the unethical practices used by BBC staff to gain his sister’s consent to be interviewed in 1995 for Panorama television programme.
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