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Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (24 January 1924 – 29 March 1992). Countess Spencer was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth in 1937. She continued in the role after Elizabeth became Queen Mother in 1952, and remained in post until her death. [6] She was the grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
John Spencer, the man who would become the 8th Earl Spencer and the father of Princess Diana, was born on January 24, 1924. The son of the 7th Earl Spencer and Lady Cynthia Hamilton, the Spencer ...
The Spencer family has been part of the British aristocracy for hundreds of years, and Diana and Sarah's grandmothers—Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer and Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy—even ...
Countess Spencer may refer to: Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer (1737–1814), wife of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer; Charlotte Spencer, Countess Spencer (1835–1903), wife of British Liberal politician Viscount Althorp; Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897–1972), paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana — who lost her life at age 36 after a Paris car accident on Aug. 31, 1997 — is buried at the Spencer family ancestral home, Althorp, which Spencer has been custodian of since 1992, after ...
Lady Sunderland and Lady Diana, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Lady Diana Spencer was born into the rising Spencer family in London on 31 July 1710. [1] She was the second daughter and youngest of five children of the English statesman Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, and his second wife, Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (née Lady Anne Churchill).
A young Miss Georgiana Spencer with her mother, Margaret Georgiana Spencer. Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.. The Duchess was born Miss Georgiana Spencer, on 7 June 1757, [4] as the first child of John Spencer (later Earl Spencer) and his wife, Georgiana (née Poyntz, later Countess Spencer), at the Spencer family home, Althorp. [3]
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