Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, divorcing wife Karen after 13 years of marriage: ‘Immensely sad’

Charles Spencer, the youthful brother of the late Princess Diana, is acquiring divorced from his spouse Karen Spencer.

The 9th Earl Spencer, 60, introduced the split to the Day by day Mail on Saturday.

“It is immensely unfortunate,” Charles claimed.

“I just want to commit myself to all my kids, and to my grandchildren, and I want Karen just about every joy in the upcoming,” he additional.

In accordance to the Everyday Mail, Charles and Karen, 52, are divorcing partly due to the fact of “the strain” it took on Charles crafting about the bodily and sexual abuse he expert at boarding university in his memoir, “A Quite Non-public College.”

Charles and Karen have been married considering that June 2011.

Their wedding day took spot at Althorp Residence in Good Barington, England, two months after Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding ceremony.

They have a 12-12 months-old daughter, Charlotte Diana.

Karen has two other daughters from her past marriage to Hollywood producer Mark Gordon, while Charles has 6 kids from his 1st two marriages to Victoria Lockwood and Caroline Freud.

In his memoir that came out in March, Charles discovered that he was sexually abused as a little one even though attending Maidwell Hall, an elite English boarding school.

He mentioned that he created the revelation for the initial time to a therapist.

“I whispered to him that I was sexually abused as a child by an adult. And I don’t forget him on the lookout so shocked, and he had read it all,” Charles wrote.

“Afterward, he took me aside and stated, ‘This is very serious things.’ “

The father of 7 continued: “By that phase, I had small children. I suddenly set it into context. What if a person of my children of either gender experienced been subjected to this as an 11-year-outdated? It manufactured my blood boil. I then started to allow for myself to feel the comprehensive devastation of what had happened to me.”

Charles claimed that his mom and dad “had no thought of the level of cruelty and perversion” that he dealt with at the college.

“They would in no way have despatched me there,” he mentioned. “I think they in all probability had an outdated-fashioned check out that corporal punishment, the beatings, would likely be component of the college. But they ended up these types of a ritual element of each individual working day. There have been 72 boys and at the very least a 50 % dozen of us would be beaten each individual working day. Your time came all around quite rapidly. I don’t consider the mother and father experienced any expertise of that.”

In the memoir, Charles also opened up about his late sister, who died at 36 a long time aged from injuries she sustained in a car or truck crash in 1997.

“She was the closest particular person to me increasing up,” he said. “We had two considerably older sisters and a toddler brother who had died. Then there was Diana and me. We were being quite close.”

“And, really, that was just one of the devastations of currently being sent away,” he added. “She was sent a calendar year in advance of me, but for the to start with handful of yrs of my existence, we went everywhere you go with each other.”