Charles and Karen Spencer are launching 'Spencer 1508,' a new web series and newsletter that will take audiences inside the historic Althorp Estate.
to share that knowledge with a new audience.
The series was announced on Karen’s Instagram account Wednesday, with a video of her looking at the house’s archives, handling an earl’s coronet, consulting on floral arrangements, and exploring the farmland. In the video, she said that the series grew out of the fact that she didn’t know too much about Althorp when she first married Charles.
Videos will be released weekly through the free newsletters, and some episodes will give insight into famous Spencers throughout history going beyond the famous princess. In a, Charles spoke about his admiration for the 1st Duke of Marlborough, a famous soldier who died about 300 years ago. Through the duke, the Spencer family is also related to Winston Churchill.
Charles has been responsible for Althorp House since 1992, when has father John, 8th Earl Spencer, died in a car accident. He married Karen, his third wife, in 2010, and they share one daughter,, who was born in 2012. Karen was born in Canada and is also the founder of Whole Child International, a nonprofit that works to improve the care of vulnerable children worldwide.
But she is clearly just as passionate about the house as her husband. “I’m excited to bring everyone on the journey that I'm on,” she said in the clip. “Whether it be the walled garden, the restoration of some of the bedrooms, or understanding how the parkland works… I really want to leave this house and parkland in a better place than when I arrived.”
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