Earl Spencer’s children found out wedding news ‘via text’ | Royal | News

He has four adult children, Lady Kitty, twins Lady Eliza and Lady Amelia, and Viscount Louis, from his marriage to model Victoria Lockwood. He later welcomed Edmund and Lara with his second wife, Caroline Freud.

He later married Karen Gordon in 2011, with whom they had a daughter, Lady Charlotte Diana, born in July 2012.

Some of his children reportedly learned about his fourth wedding via text message.

A family friend told the Daily Mail: “They found out through a text.”

Charles married Cat on May 15 and announced the happy news on his personal Instagram account.

Alongside five photos of the happy couple on their honeymoon in Arizona, the 62-year-old wrote: “May 15, 2026 is the happiest day ever. A very close friend told me months ago: “The thing about Cat is that if you lived in a cabin she’d want to be with you.”

She later added: “I didn’t know he’d be happy to marry me in the desert too [green-cactus emoji]”

The brother of the late Princess of Wales is known to have a strained relationship with his four eldest children; He did not attend Lady Kitty Spencer’s wedding in 2021 and Lady Amelia Spencer’s wedding in 2023.

Mrs Jarman has two sons from a previous marriage to Tom Jarman.