Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, divorcing wife Karen after 13 years of marriage: ‘Immensely sad’

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9th Earl Spencer, 60, announced the split to the Daily Mail on Saturday.“It is immensely sad,” Charles said.“I just want to devote myself to all my children, and to my grandchildren, and I wish Karen every happiness in the future,” he added.According to the Daily Mail, Charles and Karen, 52, are divorcing partly because of “the strain” it took on Charles writing about the physical and sexual abuse he experienced at boarding school in his memoir, “A Very Private School.”Charles and Karen were married since June 2011.Their wedding took place at Althorp House in Great Barington, England, two months after Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding.They have a 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte Diana.

Karen has two other daughters from her previous marriage to Hollywood producer Mark Gordon, while Charles has six children from his first two marriages to Victoria Lockwood and Caroline Freud.A post shared by Karen Spencer (@karenspencer)In his memoir that came out in March, Charles revealed that he was sexually abused as a child while attending Maidwell Hall, an elite English boarding school.He said that he made the revelation for the first time to a therapist.“I whispered to him that I was sexually abused as a child by an adult.

And I remember him looking so shocked, and he had heard it all,” Charles wrote.“Afterward, he took me aside and said, ‘This is very serious stuff.’ “The father of seven continued: “By that stage, I had children.

I suddenly put it into context. What if one of my children of either gender had been subjected to this as an 11-year-old? It made my blood boil.