Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (January 24, 1924 - March 29, 1992) was born at 24 Sussex Square, London, England, the son of Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975) and his wife, the former Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton (1897-1972), daughter of the 3rd Duke of Abercorn. Jump to: navigation, search January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (23 May 1892-9 June 1975), known as Albert Spencer until 1910 and then until 1922 as Viscount Althorp, was the son of Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer and his wife, the former Margaret Baring, second daughter of Edward Baring, 1st Baron... James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (November 30, 1869 - September 12, 1953) was a British Unionist politician and nobleman who became the first Governor of Northern Ireland. ...

On June 1, 1954 in Westminster Abbey he married Frances Ruth Burke-Roche, daughter of Edmund Maurice Burke-Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885-1955). They had five children: June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Abbeys western facade The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ... Frances Shand-Kydd Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (January 20, 1936 - June 3, 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. ...

• Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer(March 15, 1955), who married Neil Edmund McCorquodale, a distant cousin of Raine, Countess Spencer
• Cynthia Jane Spencer (February 11, 1957), who married Sir Robert Fellowes, later Baron Fellowes
• John Spencer, who died within 10 hours of his birth on January 12, 1960
• Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997), first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
• Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (May 20, 1964), who married Victoria Lockwood, then Caroline Freud (the latter formerly wife of Matthew Freud)

In April 1969 the Spencers were divorced on the grounds of Frances's adultery with Peter Shand Kydd (she was named as the other woman in a divorce action brought by Janet Shand Kydd). Lord Spencer won a bitter custody battle for the children. March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Raine, Countess Spencer was born Raine McCorquodale on September 9, 1929, the only child of the celebrated romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland and her first husband, Alexander McCorquodale, an Army officer who was an heir to a printing fortune. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Right Honourable the Lord Fellowes of Shotesham, GCB GCVO QSO PC was Private Secretary to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1990-1999. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) (1 July 1961–31 August 1997) was the first wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. ... HRH The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer is the son of Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, the former Frances Ruth Burke Roche (later Shand Kydd). ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Matthew Freud is head of Freud Communications Limited, and is a descendant of Sigmund Freud and relation of Lucien Freud and Clement Freud. ...

In 1976, Lord Spencer married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, the former wife of Gerald Legge, 9th Earl Dartmouth. Her mother was the romance novelist Barbara Cartland. Raine, Countess Spencer was born Raine McCorquodale on September 9, 1929, the only child of the celebrated romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland and her first husband, Alexander McCorquodale, an Army officer who was an heir to a printing fortune. ... Dame Barbara Cartland DBE (Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, July 9, 1901 - May 21, 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time â€” and one of the most bizarre looking, being swathed invariably in outfits of pastel chiffon and fond of makeup so theatrically thick that one...

Lord Spencer died at Humana Hospital, Wellington, London, at the age of 68.

Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (23 May 1892-9 June 1975), known as Albert Spencer until 1910 and then until 1922 as Viscount Althorp, was the son of Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer and his wife, the former Margaret Baring, second daughter of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke... The title Earl Spencer was created in 1765 in the Peerage of Great Britain for John Spencer, 1st Viscount Spencer, a great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. ... Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, (born May 20, 1964), is the second and only surviving son of Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, the former Honourable Frances Ruth Burke Roche (later Shand Kydd), daughter of Baron Fermoy. ...