A Second Chance Is That Too Much to Ask? ; That Bitter Funeral Address Won Him Few Friends. Today, a More Mellow Earl Spencer Talks Candidly About His Changed Life and Whether His Sister Diana Will Have a Place in History

Evening Standard - London › May 25, 2005

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EARL Spencer and his wife of four years, Caroline, or " Pidge ", are both extremely busy. He, all six foot of him, is sitting in the library - or one of the libraries, really: his house, Althorp, has at least three.

Pidge is in another part of the house being photographed. "I don't think she's in a library," says Earl Spencer.

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A Second Chance Is That Too Much to Ask? ; That Bitter Funeral Address Won Him Few Friends. Today, a More Mellow Earl Spencer Talks Candidly About His Changed Life and Whether His Sister Diana Will Have a Place in History

"We only really use one library. I haven't been in this room for about five years." He looks faintly embarrassed.

I discover the other libraries later on in the day after Charles Spencer, the ninth Earl, kindly lets me potter at leisure around his house while he and Pidge go off and do "other things", which I suspect have something to do with red-haired, tousle-topped Ned, their 20-month-old son, who couldn't look more like his father if he tried.

In fact, Ned appears halfway through my own private tour, clinging to his mother. "He's very tir...

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