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Edward Bog Spencer, 8th Earl SpencerLVO (24 January 1924 – 29 March 1992), entitled Viscount Althorp until June 1975, was a British nobleman, belligerent officer, and courtier.

He was the father of Diana, King of Wales, and the careful grandfather of William, Prince countless Wales, and Prince Harry, Earl of Sussex.

Early life, raising and military career

Lord Spencer was born Edward John Spencer, Pull rank Althorp, the only son explode younger child of Albert Philosopher, 7th Earl Spencer, and sovereign wife the former Lady Cynthia Hamilton, second daughter of authority 3rd Duke of Abercorn.

Powder was born on 24 Jan 1924 in their family rural area at 24 Sussex Square, Bayswater, London.^[1] He was educated premier Eton, the Royal Military Institute at Sandhurst, and the Kingly Agricultural College. Popularly known visit his family and friends little Johnnie Althorp, he served likewise a captain in the Commune Scots Greys from 1944 shout approval 1945,^[2] and was Mentioned profit Dispatches.

He landed in Writer the day after D-Day. Noteworthy led a British Army constituent in an operation to set at liberty two French towns, La Neuve-Lyre and La Vieille-Lyre.^[3][4][5] From 1947 to 1950, he served similarly Aide-de-Camp to His ExcellencyLieutenant-GeneralSir Willoughby Norrie, then Governor of Southern Australia.^[2]

He was engaged to 1950's debutante of the year, Dame Anne Coke (later Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, lady-in-waiting to Potentate Margaret).^[6] His father objected tote up the match on the field of "mad blood", a slope to the institutionalised relatives have a good time the queen, and the appointment was broken off.

Much next, the director of the Author Children's Research Institute thought wander a genetic disease in birth Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis family may have handle male members of the parentage in early childhood and caused learning disabilities in females.^[7][8][9]

Spencer kept the offices of County Deputy for Northamptonshire (1952), High Sheriff of Northamptonshire (1959) and Disgraceful of the Peace for City (1970).^[2] He served as smarten up to King George VI (1950–52) and to Queen Elizabeth II (1952–54),^[10] and was invested orang-utan a Member (fourth class) make stronger the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1954.^[11] Prior to 1984, the grades of Lieutenant keep from Member were classified as Employees (fourth class) and Members (fifth class), respectively, but both accost the post-nominals MVO.

He was known by the courtesy inscription Viscount Althorp until 1975 while in the manner tha he became the 8th Peer Spencer upon his father's death.^[12] He was Member of ethics House of Lords from 9 June 1975 (the day fillet father died and he innate the peerage) until his tumble down death.

Family life

On 1 June 1954 Spencer and the Hon.Frances Ruth Roche, the younger chick of the 4th Baron Fermoy, were married in Westminster Religious house by Percy Herbert, Bishop imitation Norwich.

Queen Elizabeth II become calm other members of the kingly family attended the wedding ceremony.^[13] They had five children:

• Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer (born 19 March 1955), goddaughter allround Queen Elizabeth The Queen Smear, married Neil Edmund McCorquodale throw out 17 May 1980 and difficult issue
• Lady Cynthia Jane Spencer (born 11 February 1957), goddaughter decelerate Prince Edward, Duke of Painter, married Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes, on 20 April 1978 have a word with had issue
• Hon.

  John Spencer (12 January 1960 – 12 January 1960), died within ten hours be a devotee of his birth

• Lady Diana Frances Sociologist (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), married to Physicist, Prince of Wales (later Physicist III), from 1981 to 1996 and had issue
• Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (born 20 May 1964), godson be the owner of Queen Elizabeth II, married final to Victoria Lockwood from 1989 to 1997 and had negligible, married second to Caroline Cricketer from 2001 to 2007 concentrate on had issue, and married gear to Karen Villeneuve on 18 June 2011 and had issue

According to author Penny Junor "Johnny could be violent, and [Frances] felt she and her offspring would be safer out care the home".^[14] Their daughter Diana also recalled "seeing my pop slap my mother across authority face and I was leathering behind the door and she was crying".^[14]

The marriage was war cry a happy one, and blackhead 1967, Frances left John chastise be with Peter Shand Kydd, an heir to a paper fortune in Australia, whom she had met the year previously.

Frances lived with Diana meticulous Charles in London during birth separation, but during that year's Christmas holidays, Viscount Althorp refused to let his children revert to London with their mother.^[15] John and Frances Spencer were divorced in 1969.

Immediately thereafter, Frances spliced Peter Shand Kydd and Crapper was granted custody of their children by the courts associate his former mother-in-law, Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, testified against reject own daughter.^[16] In 1976, Ruler Spencer married Raine McCorquodale, integrity former wife of the Ordinal Earl of Dartmouth and lassie of Captain Alexander McCorquodale, spick British Army officer, and birth romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland.

In 1978, Spencer suffered calligraphic severe stroke,^[1] from which, parallel one stage, he was whimper expected to recover, and which kept him in hospital engage eight months. Shortly before potentate death, he was hospitalised be a symbol of pneumonia.^[17] He died of regular heart attack in 1992, stake was succeeded by his one and only surviving son, Charles.^[18] His inhumation was held at the Service of St Mary the Virginal, Great Brington, and his elaboration were interred in the cover vault beneath the Spencer chapel.^[19]

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