Earl Charles Spencer

Charles Spencer is an author, public speaker, broadcaster, and journalist. He is also the 9th Earl Spencer. His bestseller Blenheim: Battle for Europe (2004) was shortlisted for Historical Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards. His latest book is The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream (2022). Charles has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of events in the UK, India, USA, South Africa, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand. As a broadcaster, Charles Spencer worked for NBC News as an on-air correspondent from 1986 to 1995, primarily for the TODAY Show. He was educated at Eton and at Oxford University, where he earned his MA in modern history. He served as a Page of Honour to HM the Queen in the 1970s and has been one of her deputy lieutenants for Northampton shire since 2005. He has seven children and two stepchildren and is the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.