The following article contains references to child abuse, sexual abuse, and eating disorders.
Charles Spencer has, perhaps unwittingly, lived much of his life in the limelight.
But it wasn’t just his admonishments of the Windsors that led to him being clouded by bad publicity.
But when Spencer wed Canadian philanthropist Karen Gordon in 2011, it appeared his luck was changing.
But she wouldn’t want it any other way.
Here are all the red flags in Charles Spencer and Karen Gordon’s relationship.
He wed his first wife, Victoria Lockwood, in 1989.
In 2001, he married his second wife, Caroline Freud, but this union lasted just six years.
However, Lady Kitty later saw her dad’s side of the story.
His relationship with Coleen also ended abruptly, with the reporter moving back to the U.S. in 2008.
The two were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend in 2010.
“But I turned up at a restaurant in Los Angeles and there was Karen.”
At the time, Gordon had been using crystals to try and find the love of her life.
By her own admission, it wasn’t love at first sight.
“It wasn’t instant,” she once remarked on a podcast, according toThe Royal Observer.
“It took a minute.
By March 2010, Spencer proposed to Bianca.
“Charles has not got a good track record for marriage,” the source said.
“It didn’t seem a good idea to have any more divorces or any more heirs.”
Despite these reservations, Spencer and Gordon were engaged just months later, in February 2011.
“It left me with a predisposition for rescuing people.
But by the time I met Karen …
I realized I no longer needed to go for someone who was vulnerable.”
“It was the ones who couldn’t love him back who were magnetic for him.
When you’re damaged, you look for damage.”
Similarly,The Telegraphargued that Spencer had a flair for making women pity and thus fall for him.
Charles Spencer publicly insulted Karen Gordon
Charles Spencer has a history of being mean to his ex-wives.
But such inexplicably cruel barbs were not reserved for his exes.
In 2015, Spencer publicly insulted Karen Gordon while promoting his book “Killers of the King.”
“It is not a pretty characteristic, but there it is.
I’m sure it goes back to his childhood when his mother ran off with another man.
He loves the chase of women, and seducing them, but he can be ruthless with them.”
“I’m a fixer.
“Charles gave me the best advice …
I don’t get to have an opinion about his children.
I can have an opinion and give it to him, in our bedroom, but not to them.
I just wish I could say I’d adhered to it the whole time.”
“I am definitely a daddy’s girl.
I’m more like him than my mother.
We share the same sense of humor and have similar interests.”
But her relationship with her dad appeared to sour during his marriage to Karen Gordon.
However, a source told theDaily Mailthat Gordon was the cause of a rift between father and daughter.
He was true to his word, he didn’t lie, ever.
“Friends say they look very happy together but that it is early days,” the outlet noted.
“Things could have been awkward, otherwise.”
Two years later, they began working on their podcast together.
“It is immensely sad,” Spencer said, per the Daily Mail.
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