{"id":273962,"date":"2026-02-08T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:32:09","slug":"princess-dianas-brother-handed-over-althorp-house-to-marion-and-her-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273962\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana&#8217;s brother &#8216;handed over&#8217; Althorp House to Marion and her family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1391494_015135_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Princess Diana's brother 'handed over' Althorp House to Marion and her family\"\/>Princess Diana&#8217;s brother said \u201cThank you Marion for all your warm, wonderful professionalism over the years&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Princess Diana\u2019s brother Charles Spencer has \u2018handed over\u2019 his ancestral home the Althorp House to Marion and her family, he shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X, formerly Twitter handle, Prince William and Harry\u2019s uncle shared the photo of Marion with her family and revealed the big news days after he and his partner welcomed \u2018Aslan\u2019 there.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Spencer tweeted, \u201cThis afternoon I handed over Althorp House to Marion &amp; her family &#8211; to celebrate her retirement after 4 decades of being a tour guide, as well as a big birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also penned a heartfelt birthday note for Marion, saying \u201cThank you Marion for all your warm, wonderful professionalism over the years &#8211; &amp; a very Happy Birthday!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, Charles Spencer said, \u201cToday at @althorphouse @catjarman and I wanted to salute Marion &#8211; she has just retired from being a tour guide here for four decades, and she\u2019s celebrating turning 85, so we told her to come to enjoy Althorp with her family for a tea party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cMy father would also want to thank you, Marion, for your incredible devotion to Althorp, your wonderful professionalism, and for all the happiness you have given to our summer visitors with your enthusiasm and joie de vivre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Spencer and his partner also shared photos with Aslan, a former Police horse on social media to welcome him at the house.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cSo pleased to welcome Aslan to @AlthorpHouse &#8211; a former Police horse, he needed somewhere to retire to. Delighted to look after him now. He\u2019s very charming and playful and has settled in quickly &#8211; having been stationed in London, he\u2019s particularly loving the green fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1391494_1325432_Spencer_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Dianas brother handed over Althorp House to Marion and her family\" width=\"1200\" height=\"968\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Diana&#8217;s brother said \u201cThank you Marion for all your warm, wonderful professionalism over the years&#8221; Princess Diana\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-273962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}