Charles Spencer, the youthful brother of the late Princess Diana, has opened up about his new relationship together with his much-younger girlfriend, Dr. Catrine Jarman.
Earl Spencer, 60, insisted that he “wasn’t looking” for love when he met Jarman, explaining that the duo — who’ve an 18-year age hole between them — went from “friends” to “colleagues” to lovers.
“[We have] shared interests,” he advised the Every day Mail. “We were fascinated by the same things. And she made me laugh. Laughter was key.”
Spencer met the archeologist, 42, in 2021 when she arrived at Althorp, his household’s nation property the place his late sister was laid to relaxation, for work-related causes.
The pair quickly shaped a robust friendship, regardless of Spencer being married to his estranged spouse, Countess Karen Spencer, on the time.
Actually, their friendship grew so shut that the duo even launched a podcast collectively referred to as “The Rabbit Hole Detectives” alongside Reverend Richard Coles.
Nonetheless, Spencer insists that there was nothing romantic happening between him and Jarman on the time.
“The thing is, I am 18 years older than Cat and so there wasn’t even the possibility,” he advised the outlet. “I’ve never been with a much younger person. I wasn’t even thinking romance. I was at the tail end of a marriage. It just wasn’t a possibility.”
“I’ve never tried to do a hard sell on Cat. She’s very canny, very emotionally mature. With her I don’t pretend to be anything I am not. She knows exactly who I am and who I am not,” he added.
“I feel that I’ve got to know Charles very gradually, as a friend, and I know how his life has developed,” Jarman stated of her new beau. “I know who he is now. That is all that matters.”
“I’m too old for hearts and flowers stuff, but the best way to describe it is that with Cat, I can be myself,” Spencer chimed in, including that Jarman “knows who I am.”
“I don’t have to pretend to be something I am not. And she brings out the best in me,” he added.
As for going from mates to lovers, Spencer admits that their connection grew into “something else” in March 2024 — three months earlier than Charles introduced his divorce.
“Put it this way, this is a very easy relationship to be in,” he shared. “Sometimes in the past I was trying to make people better, or make people happier. I think I was a people pleaser. I’m much less concerned with that.”
The ninth Earl Spencer stated a number of of his “close friends” have voiced “how happy they are that [he is] with someone like Cat because it shows enormous progress from where [he] was before.”
“Look, it’s good to be with someone who is just so . . . nice. I don’t want to denigrate anyone, but Cat is just completely different to anyone I’ve ever been with before,” he added.
Spencer shares a 12-year-old daughter with Karen, in addition to six different kids from his earlier two marriages.
Jarman, for her half, shares two teenage boys together with her ex-husband.
Previous to putting up a romance with Jarman, Spencer was married to Girl Spencer, 52, for 13 years.
He was married to Caroline Freud from 2001 to 2007, and Victoria Aitken from 1989 to 1997.
Final month, Jarman sensationally sued Spencer’s estranged spouse.
Spencer’s new girlfriend filed the lawsuit towards Girl Spencer on Oct. 10, alleging “misuse of private information.”
