Raine Spencer married Diana's father, John, Earl Spencer when the future Princess of Wales was just 15. The circumstances were traumatic; the Spencer's own mother, Frances, had walked out.

Raine became Diana’s stepmother after she married John, Earl Spencer, when Diana was 15 years old. Their relationship was often strained, but the two forged a friendship in the years before ...

Purchased in 1990 by Princess Diana’s father, Earl Spencer, this Mayfair property once served as the residence of Countess Raine Spencer, the Earl’s second wife and Princess Diana’s stepmother.

Diana’s father, John Spencer, bought the house at 24 Farm Street, Mayfair, in 1990. Raine inherited it after the Earl died in 1992 and the Spencer children unceremoniously kicked her out of ...

Earl Spencer marked the 26th anniversary of the fatal Paris car crash that claimed his ... Her mother later married Peter Shand Kydd and Viscount Althorp married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth ...

The former London townhouse of John Spencer, the 8th Earl Spencer, and Countess Raine Spencer—otherwise known as the father and stepmother of Princess Diana—has come to the market for £10.95 ...

Earl Spencer did not invite his own children to his wedding to Raine. ( AP Photo/Press Association ) A 15-year-old Diana was so appalled by his behaviour that she confronted her father and slapped ...

Following her marriage to Earl Spencer in 1976, he purchased a first-floor apartment just one door down from Raine’s previous flat, at 48 Grosvenor Square. Following John’s death in 1992, she lived on ...

Raine met Earl Spencer, her colleague on an architectural heritage committee, in 1973. Three years later she was divorced from her first husband and went on to marry John in July 1976, ...