‘You open yourself up to other people’s opinions’: Kitty Spencer, 30, refuses to discuss love life with fashion tycoon fiancé Michael Lewis, 62, but hopes for ‘a happy marriage and happy children’
- Kitty Spencer said she looks forward to a ‘happy marriage and happy children’
- Princess Diana’s niece, 30, is engaged to millionaire tycoon Michael Lewis, 62
- She added ‘love is the most important thing in the world, and I will protect it with all my heart by not making it a topic of discussion’
Lady Kitty Spencer has said she looks forward to a ‘happy marriage and happy children’ but says she wants to ‘protect her heart’ by not discussing her love life.
Princess Diana’s niece, 30, is engaged to South Africa-born multi-millionaire, Michael Lewis, 62, but has never publicly spoken about her fiancé – who is five years older than her father Charles Spencer.
Speaking to the summer issue of Town & Country, which is out today, the model cousin of Princes William and Harry said: ‘It’s not that I don’t place an importance on love. It’s because, for me, love is the most important thing in the world, and I will protect it with all my heart by not making it a topic of discussion.
‘You open yourself up to other people having opinions, and it just isn’t relevant to anybody’s life but mine and my family’s.
Lady Kitty Spencer has said she looks forward to a ‘happy marriage and happy children’ but says she wants to ‘protect her heart’ by not discussing her love life
Despite staying tight-lipped on her beau, Kitty added: ‘I just look forward to a really happy home life: a happy marriage and happy children. And I feel very at peace that things play out the way they should.’
Kitty’s fiance Michael has three adult children and was previously married to a woman named Leola in 1985.
It’s not yet known whether Lady Kitty will convert to Judaism, Mr Lewis’ faith, before the big day.
In August 2019, Lady Kitty was seen kissing Lewis after leaving Club 55 in St Tropez.
In June, she was pictured showing off a large diamond ring on her engagement finger at London’s Cash & Rocket Masquerade Ball.
Just like Diana, the London-born daughter of Diana’a brother Charles Spencer and Victoria Aitken, grew up in the Spencer family seat Althorp in Northamptonshire.
Princess Diana’s niece, 30, is engaged to South Africa-born multi-millionaire, Michael Lewis, 62, but has never publicly spoken about her fiancé – who is five years older than her father Charles Spencer.
While Kitty is often spotted looking glamorous in the public, her brother Louis, 27, who is set to inherit their father’s title, keeps a lower profile.
‘Primogeniture can be a tricky topic, because as times are changing, attitudes are as well. We’ve grown up understanding that it’s Louis to inherit, and Louis will do an incredible job,’ Kitty added.
Speaking of her childhood, she went on: ‘We have such an emotional attachment to Althorp.
The Summer issue of Town & Country is on sale from 13 May 2021
‘That’s where we would have our Easter-egg hunts and our Christmases; I have my little vegetable patch, I learnt to ride a horse there, I learnt to ride a bike and to rollerblade.
‘It’s so lovely to look back on the history and think everybody else probably learnt to ride a horse there, too.’
The Spencer siblings – including twin sisters Eliza and Amelia, 28. – all tuned heads when they attended the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018.
The Spencer siblings – including twin sisters Eliza and Amelia, 28. – all tuned heads when they attended the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018. (L-R): Eliza, Louis, their mother Victoria, and Kitty
Overnight, Kitty’s Instagram following, which leapt from 37,000 to a staggering half a million
‘I woke up the next day and looked at my phone and thought, “Whoops, did I take someone else’s by mistake?”. It was very weird, and a little bit overwhelming.’
Speaking about her relationship with her siblings, Eliza and Amelia, she added: ‘We are a bit of a tripod. It’s been horrible to be separated this year.
‘They are in South Africa, which is only an hour ahead, and with two flights going there a day, you usually have the comforting thought of, “I could always be there in the morning if I needed to be.”
Princess Diana’s niece jetted off to the French Riviera earlier last summer Pictured, in Nemi in a £1,750 D&G dress
‘It’s been awful to be completely shut off, and thinking, come what may, we can’t be there for each other…’
Despite usually living a jet-set lifestyle, Kitty has travelled much less this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last summer, Kitty shared an insight into her very luxurious trip to the French Riveriea and Italy’s Amalfi Coast and Capri, showing off delicious meals and idyllic beaches on her Instagram page.
Kitty has had a global outlook from a young age, growing up between Althorp and Cape Town, South Africa.
As well as studying at the University of Cape Town, she later studied art history and Italian in Florence,
On being a student in Italy, she added: ‘Everything felt so simple and carefree, but you’re still being stimulated in a culturally rich environment.
‘It’s just pure pleasure and learning, and being surrounded by every type of beauty. If I’m lucky enough to live to the age of retirement, Florence is where you’ll find me.’
The Summer issue of Town & Country is on sale from 13 May 2021
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