HELLO! PRINCESS DI’S BRO BUYS $8M LAKE ROSSEAU MANSION
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
PORT CARLING — Millionaire’s Row has rich new neighbours — even by their standards.
Princess Diana’s brother has reportedly bought a mansion on Lake Rosseau once listed at $8 million, says the National Post.
Charles the Earl of Spencer and his Canadian wife Karen Gordon, an Edmonton “social entrepreneur,” also bought 20 acres on Silver Lake — soon no doubt to be dubbed Gold Lake or Platinum Lake.
The properties are just east of the downtown. The cottage is on Arthurlie Bay, just across the Stephen Road from Silver Lake.
Among the cottage glitterati of movie stars and hockey players, the Spencers are not new.
The aunt and uncle to Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meaghan Markle are said to have been regulars on Hollywood north summer jet-setting scene for eight years.
He has long professed his love for Canada and Muskoka in interviews.
And the land deals — which include a building permit on Silver Lake with 1,000 feet of waterfront — have been winding their way through Muskoka Lakes Township planning channels for months.
Spencer, the 56-year-old younger brother of Diana and an author and journalist, recently received an apology from the BBC for the unethical practices used by BBC staff to gain his sister’s consent to be interviewed in November 1995.
Despite a reportedly rocky relationship just before Diana died Aug. 31 1997, six days later he delivered a moving eulogy at her funeral slamming the monarchy and press for her treatment.
An earl in British noble ranking is above a viscount and below a marquess.
According to Wikipedia, when his father died in 1992, Spencer, 27, succeeded him as 9th Earl Spencer, 9th Viscount Althorp, 9th Viscount Spencer of Althorp, 9th Baron Spencer of Althorp, and 4th Viscount Althorp.
The titled date back to 1785.
He also inherited Althorp, the family’s ancestral seat in Northamptonshire, where Diana is buried on the family’s 13,000 acre estate.
The Spencer family’s wealth derived from their profitable sheep farming in the Tudor era.
The earl has seven children who could be jet-skiing on Lake Rosseau, Lake Joe and Lake Muskoka, including eight-year-old daughter Charlotte Diana, by his third wife Lady Spencer.
And perhaps Muskokans could see the return of Prince Andrew, who visited and boated with former Ontario lieutenant governor John Black Aird, while the young royal attended private school in Haliburton at Lakefield College in the 1980s.
The college ended its foundation relationship with the royal last year after his ties to alleged sex predator Jeffrey Epstein who killed himself in a New York jail.
See original Post story here.
See Charles’ Wiki entry here
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