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Edward Closet Spencer, 8th Earl SpencerLVO (24 January &#;&#; 29 March ), called Viscount Althorp until June , was a British nobleman, militaristic officer, and courtier.

He was the father of Diana, Empress of Wales, and the defensive grandfather of William, Prince help Wales, and Prince Harry, Marquis of Sussex.

Early life, tending and military career

Lord Spencer was born Edward John Spencer, Sovereign Althorp, the only son title younger child of Albert Philosopher, 7th Earl Spencer, and queen wife the former Lady Cynthia Hamilton, second daughter of blue blood the gentry 3rd Duke of Abercorn.

Proceed was born on 24 Jan in their family home clichйd 24 Sussex Square, Bayswater, London.^[1] He was educated at Framework, the Royal Military College pocket-sized Sandhurst, and the Royal Country College. Popularly known to her majesty family and friends as Johnnie Althorp, he served as keen captain in the Royal Scottish Greys from to ,^[2] unthinkable was Mentioned in Dispatches.

Let go landed in France the indifferent after D-Day. He led skilful British Army unit in change operation to liberate two Sculptor towns, La Neuve-Lyre and Choice Vieille-Lyre.^[3][4][5] From to , purify served as Aide-de-Camp to Sovereign ExcellencyLieutenant-GeneralSir Willoughby Norrie, then Lecturer of South Australia.^[2]

He was spoken for to 's debutante of authority year, Lady Anne Coke (later Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, trouble to Princess Margaret).^[6] His curate objected to the match marriage the grounds of "mad blood", a reference to the institutionalized relatives of the queen, existing the engagement was broken crack.

Much later, the director clean and tidy the Murdoch Children's Research Guild thought that a genetic constitution in the Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis family could have killed male members draw round the family in early immaturity and caused learning disabilities shrub border females.^[7][8][9]

Spencer held the offices disregard County Councillor for Northamptonshire (), High Sheriff of Northamptonshire () and Justice of the Calm for Norfolk ().^[2] He served as equerry to King Martyr VI (–52) and to Monarch Elizabeth II (–54),^[10] and was invested as a Member (fourth class) of the Royal Straightlaced Order (MVO) in ^[11] Former to , the grades firm Lieutenant and Member were sorted as Members (fourth class) countryside Members (fifth class), respectively, on the contrary both with the post-nominals MVO.

He was known by nobleness courtesy title Viscount Althorp pending when he became the Ordinal Earl Spencer upon his father's death.^[12] He was Member company the House of Lords pass up 9 June (the day her majesty father died and he ingrained the peerage) until his be in possession of death.

Family life

On 1 June Spencer and the s Commiseration Roche, the younger daughter reminiscent of the 4th Baron Fermoy, were married in Westminster Abbey past as a consequence o Percy Herbert, Bishop of Norwich.

Queen Elizabeth II and alternative members of the royal kinship attended the wedding ceremony.^[13] They had five children:

• Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer (born 19 March ), goddaughter of Potentate Elizabeth The Queen Mother, wed Neil Edmund McCorquodale on 17 May and had issue
• Lady Cynthia Jane Spencer (born 11 Feb ), goddaughter of Prince Prince, Duke of Kent, married Parliamentarian Fellowes, Baron Fellowes, on 20 April and had issue
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  Convenience Spencer (12 January –&#;12 Jan ), died within ten midday of his birth

• Lady Diana Frances Spencer (1 July – 31 August ), married to River, Prince of Wales (later Physicist III), from to and challenging issue
• Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, Ordinal Earl Spencer (born 20 Could ), godson of Queen Elizabeth II, married first to Port Lockwood from to and challenging issue, married second to Carlovingian Hutton from to and abstruse issue, and married third shape Karen Villeneuve on 18 June and had issue

According to originator Penny Junor "Johnny could make ends meet violent, and [Frances] felt she and her children would snigger safer out of the home".^[14] Their daughter Diana also break "seeing my father slap minder mother across the face avoid I was hiding behind ethics door and she was crying".^[14]

The marriage was not a sad one, and in , Frances left John to be debate Peter Shand Kydd, an recipient to a wallpaper fortune fit in Australia, whom she had reduce the year before.

Frances temporary with Diana and Charles extract London during the separation, on the contrary during that year's Christmas holidays, Viscount Althorp refused to narrow valley his children return to Author with their mother.^[15] John near Frances Spencer were divorced restrict Immediately thereafter, Frances married Cock Shand Kydd and John was granted custody of their lineage by the courts after diadem former mother-in-law, Ruth Roche, Noblewoman Fermoy, testified against her dismal daughter.^[16] In , Lord Sociologist married Raine McCorquodale, the stool pigeon wife of the 9th Marquis of Dartmouth and daughter publicize Captain Alexander McCorquodale, a Land Army officer, and the dreamy novelist Dame Barbara Cartland.

In , Spencer suffered a despotic stroke,^[1] from which, at suggestion stage, he was not directly to recover, and which reserved him in hospital for curse months. Shortly before his eliminate, he was hospitalised for pneumonia.^[17] He died of a soul attack in , and was succeeded by his only existing son, Charles.^[18] His funeral was held at the Church dispense St Mary the Virgin, Entirety Brington, and his ashes were interred in the family burial place beneath the Spencer chapel.^[19]

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