Talk:Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer

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[edit] Cleanup required

This article contains way too much unsourced and unsubstatiated information, especially for an article about a currently living person who probably knows where to find a lawyer. It needs a good references section, and probably the removal of some speculative or POV text. -- Chris j wood 19:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Completely unreferenced

This is completely unreferenced. I've moved here a number of the more obvious potential libels and inanities:

Spencer's childhood was scarred by the divorce of his parents - his mother had an affair and left his father, an acrimonious divorce ensued, with the custody battle ending in the courts.^{[citation needed]} At Oxford University he gained a reputation as an over-privileged hellraiser^{[citation needed]} and appeared in a non-speaking role in the film adaptation of Another Country. After University, Spencer got media work as a royal correspondent.

Soon after the wedding, it was revealed that Spencer had maintained an affair with the journalist Sally-Ann Lasson.

One of his first actions was to order the removal of all of his step-mother Raine Spencer's effects from the estate. He also refused his sister Diana the use of a cottage on the estate following her divorce from the Prince of Wales, resulting in the two falling out.^{[citation needed]} To avoid press interest in himself and his family, Earl Spencer and his family moved to South Africa.

His claims at the time that press photographers were directly involved in the death of his sister caused a heightened interest in the Earl's affairs, given that the Earl was seeking a divorce from his now estranged wife. Now living in South Africa, Spencer had had an affair with a socialite Chantal Collopy.^{[citation needed]}

The rest of it certainly needs some cites, but is rather less messy.

James F. (talk) 08:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Royal Family Attack

"The eulogy came in for some criticism because it attacked the Royal family rather than focusing on what Diana had achieved during her life."

I added a link at the bottom to what I thought was the charles spencer eulogy for Diana. I don't see any attack on the royal family. Perhaps my link is to a false transcript of the eulogy, or perhaps I missed the royal family attack part, or perhaps whoever wrote that part of the article is full of crap. EvanR 02:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I altered the year in which the current Earl Spencers' second marriage ended in a quickie divorce. The article stated 2006 which should've read 2007.