Earl takes his (third) wife to the pictures

EARL SPENCER and his third wife, Karen, visited the National Portrait Gallery this week.

Between them they have nine children, 44-year-old Canadian Karen having two by ex-husband, film producer Mark Gordon, and one, Lady Charlotte, with Spencer.

The Earl, 52, is responsible for the remainder — four by first wife, Victoria Lockwood and a brace by his second Countess, ‘Pidge’, whom he left when their daughter, Lady Lara, was just four months old, though none by the 12 women with whom he enjoyed recreational adultery during his first marriage, nor any by Lady Eliot, to whom he was, at one stage, engaged.

All in all, a broad canvas.