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# Earl Spencer to marry for third time after announcing engagement to Canadian
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divorcee
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## Earl Spencer is to marry for the third time after announcing his
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engagement to a Canadian divorcee.
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![Earl Spencer to marry for third time after announcing engagement to Canadian
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divorcee][1]
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Earl Charles Spencer and Karen Gordon and (right) with Bianca Eliot in 2009
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Photo: PA/REX FEATURES
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By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter 7:00AM GMT 16 Feb 2011
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The Earl, whose previous marriages both ended in bitter divorce, proposed to
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Karen Gordon less than six months after announcing he had split up with his
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previous fiancee.
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The couple will wed on June 18 at the Spencer family home, Althorp in
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Northamptonshire, where the Earl married both of his previous wives.
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A spokesman for the couple said the ceremony would be a "private wedding"
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attended by family and close friends.
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The 46-year-old Earl is understood to have started dating Mrs Gordon, 38,
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towards the end of last year after he and his previous girlfriend, Bianca,
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Lady Eliot, broke off their engagement.
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The couple were photographed walking arm in arm in New York last November and
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had been spotted dining at the Wolseley restaurant in London's Piccadilly in
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October, though Mrs Gordon's identity was not known at the time.
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Mrs Gordon, a mother of two and former model, was previously married to Mark
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Gordon, a millionaire film producer whose credits include Saving Private Ryan.
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After the couple separated in 2003, she used her divorce settlement to set up
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her own charity, Whole Child International, which works to improve the care of
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orphaned, abandoned, abused and neglected children in developing countries and
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has been praised by the Dalai Lama.
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The Earl's decision to marry again may come as a surprise to some of his
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friends, given the unhappy circumstances in which his previous marriages
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ended.
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In 1989, the Prince of Wales and the Earl's sister, Diana, Princess of Wales
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were guests at his first marriage, to former model Victoria Lockwood, with
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whom he went on to have four children now aged between 16 and 20.
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The Earl had proposed to Miss Lockwood just 10 days after they met but, in
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1997, just weeks after the Princess of Wales's death, the Earl was exposed as
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a serial adulterer in a divorce hearing in South Africa, where the family
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lived.
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Miss Lockwood claimed the Earl had 12 girlfriends in five months, and one of
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his former lovers, Chantal Collopy, a model, offered to testify against him at
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the hearing after discovering he had been seeing her while his wife was being
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treated for anorexia and drug addiction.
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The woman who accompanied the Earl to the Princess's funeral was Josie Borain,
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a Calvin Klein model who later became a friend of Miss Lockwood.
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In his eulogy he suggested that his sister's "blood family" were the best
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people to look after her sons, Princes William and Harry.
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He married his second wife, Caroline Freud, in 2001. The couple had two
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children, now aged seven and four, but divorced in 2009. Mrs Freud fought her
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husband for the family's London home, where she had hoped to bring up the
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couple's children, but the Earl won and his ex-wife was forced to move out.
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The Earl had left his second wife when the couple's youngest child was four
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months old, after beginning an affair with Coleen Sullivan, an American
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television reporter whom he met when she interviewed him. Miss Sullivan put
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her career on hold to begin a new life with the Earl, but their relationship
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was over after 18 months.
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Last year the Earl became engaged to Lady Eliot but parted in September.
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