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Charles Spencer and a historic royal manhunt
– macleans.ca
Photograph by Richard CannonThere are few experiences more oddly intimidating than driving up to a proper English stately home. All the period-drama clichés apply. There’s the crunch of white gravel, followed by the billowing lawns, the vast banks of glittering windows, and finally, a butler stationed on the front steps like a besuited bit player, doing a silent shallow bow.
You resist being impressed, but it’s a bit like starring into a flawless 16-carat diamond and thinking, “Well, it’s just all a bit much isn’t it ?” Some things in life are just designed to dazzle and Althorp House in Northhamptonshire is one of them.
The primary resident of this extraordinary place is Charles Spencer, the 9th earl Spencer. The younger brother of the late Diana, princess of Wales, Spencer, now 50, inherited this house and the title when his father died in 1992. (He also has homes in South Africa, and California, where he lives part of the year with his third wife, Canadian philanthropist Karen Gordon…
