Find Out More About Lady Amelia Spencer, Princess Diana’s Niece!
- Lady Amelia Spencer is the daughter of Charles Spencer and former model Victoria Lockwood.
- She is also a famous model and is the niece of the late Princess Diana.
- Amelia was only 5 years old when the princess died in a car crash in Paris.
Who is Lady Amelia Spencer?
Lady Amelia Spencer is one of the seven children of Charles Spencer, the 8th Earl Spencer. She is the niece of the late Princess Diana.
She was only 5 years old when her aunt passed away in a tragic car accident in a tunnel in Paris in 1997.
Despite being born in the U.K., Amelia, and her siblings spent their childhood in South Africa. She is a successful model but also works as a wedding planner.
Amelia and her twin sister Eliza were born in 1992.
The twin sisters grew up with their other two siblings: Lady Kitty Spencer, 32, and Louis, 29.
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Amelia’s dad was extremely close to his sister, Diana
Charles was in his early 30s when his sister passed away.
Because they were the youngest siblings in the family, Charles and Diana shared an extremely close bond since childhood. In 2021, he told The Sunday Times that they both grew up at Althrop House, the family’s huge estate.
However, their childhood was grief-stricken by their parents’ divorce.
He said,
“Diana and I had two older sisters who were away at school, so she and I were very much in it together and I did talk to her about it,”
Who is Amelia’s mother?
It looks like Amelia decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps into modeling. Her mom, Victoria Aitken is a former supermodel and Ralph Lauren once described her as “the most beautiful woman in the world”.
Charles proposed to her just six weeks after their first meeting. The two married in 1989 and it ended just eight years later in 1997.
The then-couple moved their children to South Africa in 1995 but after their divorce, she stayed in the nation with her children while Spencer returned to the U.K.
In 204, Victoria confessed that she battle anorexia and substance abuse in her first marriage.
She said,
“There are no holidays from this illness,”
“The price of freedom is constant vigilance, I attend recovery meetings every week and I will do so for the rest of my life.”
Amelia loved growing up in South Africa
In an interview with The Telegraph in 2021, Amelia and Eliza recounted the pros of living life in South Africa, far away from the British tabloid.
She said,
“Cape Town was all about the sea, hiking, horse riding, tennis, netball … After high school and university, we were so happy that we didn’t feel the need to move,”
They lived their lives with great privacy there and only used their formal titles when visiting the UK.
She said,
“Only in England. We’ve never heard [the titles] outside the UK. We don’t use them, but people use them to us,”
“We were so lucky to have a normal, relaxed childhood. Public scrutiny didn’t exist at all,”
Who is Lady Amelia Spencer’s husband?
Amelia met her partner Greg Mallett while studying at the University of Cape Town. He popped the question in 2020, after 11 years of dating.
He asked her hand in marriage during their vacation to the Clouds Wine and Guest Estate, a boutique hotel and working wine farm in Stellenbosch.
Greg reportedly works as a property agent.
The two then tied the knot on March 21, 2023.
What does Amelia do for a living?
Amelia Spencer is signed with modeling agency, Storm Models. She moved back to London to pursue her career as a full-time model.
The agency’s bio read,
”She is just beginning her career as a model and made her debut in a beautiful 20 page cover story with her twin sister Eliza for Tatler Magazine, and is living full time in London where she is developing her career and working full time as a model and an ambassador for a variety of luxury brands,”
They added,
“Away from the media spotlight Amelia has a very successful career as a wedding planner in South Africa, and has arranged 36 weddings to date,”