Charles Spencer
@cspencer1508
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Althorp is home. My memoir A Very Private School, & The Rabbit Hole Book (based on The Rabbit Hole Detectives podcast) out now. @FT columnist. FRHistS, & FSA
Althorp, Northamptonshire
Joined August 2014
Today, for the third time, a ‘paper has been forced by the Law to apologise for lying about me “depriving Diana of a home”. The guilty journalist this time? Janice Turner - aka @VictoriaPeckham of @thetimes Yellow journalism.
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Quite a place for an owl to perch. How many have alighted on this tree, I wonder, over the past 750 years?
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Brand new Rabbit Hole Detectives podcast out today: @CatJarman looks at roads - from the Romans to the motorway - @RevRichardColes celebrates the sword stick, & I delve into dining etiquette through history, around the world. Do click this link if you’d like to hear it all:
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In this week’s Rabbit Hole Detectives podcast @CatJarman constructs a case for Lego while @RevRichardColes pulls the Anglesey Leg & I look at redheads (I was one, once…). Wherever you source your podcasts….
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RT @MartinSLewis: I wanted to post this picture of Kurt Klappholz age 15 (who I knew later as Proffessor Klappolz). I found it online. It w…
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Looking after the fabric of the place properly is a constant responsibility at @AlthorpHouse - and frequently a fascinating one.
Collapsed 19th century clay drainage pipes are being replaced in Althorp park this today. No original drainage plans to work from. We needed to drain the standing water away from our oak trees. A new pipe system will be in this week, we WILL leave plans! Conservation@althorp.com
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@RCFarquhar @countygolfclub Another sport I’ve failed at, Richard - but happy to support the club as (non-playing) president!
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RT @kvistp: This picture is so Scandinavian 😎 The president of Finland and the PMs of Norway, Sweden and Denmark dining together - I love i…
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RT @RevRichardColes: Rabbi John Rayner was on a kindertransport from Berlin. He was taken in by a parson and his wife. She said “you must a…
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Congratulations to Althorp’s Conservation team for fostering the barn owl population here with such care and expertise.
Yet another one of our barns has been occupied by a pair of Barn owls. Conservation officer, Jack W. spotted them yesterday. We hope to build on the good numbers we already have breeding here on the Althorp Estate. Photo. Jack. Conservation@althorp.com #barnowls
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New episode of The Rabbit Hole Detectives podcast is out today: @CatJarman looks at King Leopold’s Colony, @RevRichardColes sways to the rhythm of Steel Bands, while I look at Phobias. Wherever you source your podcasts….
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It takes an enormous amount of guts to take on opponents like News Group Newspapers, and great tenacity to win. And it’s just wonderful that Harry fought for - and gained - an apology to his mother. She would be incredibly touched at that, & rightly proud.
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First signs of light at 7.27 this morning - at last the winter nights are shortening….
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Pleased to say the @AlthorpLitFest is shaping up very well, on 11-13 April, with @clarebalding @hrcastor @RevRichardColes @chloedaltonuk @sauldavid66 @dgjones @RealDMitchell @HelenRappaport and Romy Gill among those confirmed. (Tickets won’t be available till we have the whole line up in place.)
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Pourbus’s gorgeous portrait of the Duke de Chevreuse returning to @AlthorpHouse today, after a little care and attention.
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