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The uncle of Princes William and Harry announced his divorce this Saturday, June 8, from Karen Gordon, his third wife and the mother of his daughter Charlotte Diana. “It’s extremely sad,” he said.
Charles Spencer and Karen Gordon announced their separation 13 years after exchanging vows. The late Lady Diana’s younger brother and his companion had a daughter, Charlotte Diana (age 12). “It is extremely sad. Now I want to devote myself to my children and grandchildren. I wish Karen all the happiness in the future,” he said Daily Mail: Saturday, June 8. This is the third divorce of Princes William and Harry’s uncle.
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According to information received from a British tabloid, their relationship deteriorated at the time of writing the latter’s memoirs. Charles Spencer actually released an autobiography, In a very private school, published on 12 March 2024, in which she returns, in particular, to being sexually assaulted by one of her school assistants when she was only 11 years old. A very intimate work, it also deals with losing her virginity to a sex worker as a result of her trauma from said assaults.
“whisper something in my ear”
Last March, while promoting his book, Charles Spencer, 59, detailed his awareness and desire to write on the microphone of journalist Cynthia McFadden, revealing that he first told his story during a therapy session with his psychologist. “He told me. “Whisper to me something you’ve never told anyone.” And I answered: “I was sexually abused by a woman in my childhood,” he recalls.
Although Karen Gordon was very supportive of her at the time, she later explained People “I think it must have been very difficult for her to have a husband who was in such deep and difficult therapy for over four years. But he supported the idea of me following him. And continue. “I think he always hoped that I would come out happier and more balanced. And it seems that it is indeed so. So I am grateful to him for being by my side during this, which I now realize was a significant process.
Charles Spencer and Karen Gordon met in Los Angeles in 2010 before marrying a year later and giving birth to their only daughter. Before that, the brother of the Princess of Wales had 4 children with his first wife, Victoria Lockwood, and 2 more with his second wife, Caroline Freud.
Source: Le Figaro
