Princess Dianas brother Charles Spencer addresses 18-year-age gap with new girlfriend: I wasnt even thinking romance

Charles Spencer, the younger brother of the late Princess Diana, has opened up about his new relationship 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 have an 18-year age gap between them — went from “friends” to “colleagues” to lovers.“[We have] shared interests,” he told the Daily 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 family’s country estate where his late sister was laid to rest, for work-related reasons.The pair soon formed a strong friendship, despite Spencer being married to his estranged wife, Countess Karen Spencer, at the time.In fact, their friendship grew so close that the duo even launched a podcast together called “The Rabbit Hole Detectives” alongside Reverend Richard Coles.Still, Spencer insists that there was nothing romantic going on between him and Jarman at the time.“The thing is, I am 18 years older than Cat and so there wasn’t even the possibility,” he told 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 said 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, adding 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...