{"id":594386,"date":"2026-09-08T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594386\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:14:17","slug":"inside-private-world-of-princess-dianas-niece-and-billionaire-husband-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594386\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside private world of Princess Diana’s niece and billionaire husband | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Diana<\/a>\u2019s niece is far from the royal life, living an ultra-private life with her billionaire husband. Lady Kitty Spencer, 35, bears a striking resemblance to her aunt and some say she is living the dream Diana never could.<\/p>\n

Kitty is the eldest daughter of Charles, the 9th Earl Spencer<\/a>, and model Victoria Lockwood. She keeps her husband Michael Lewis, 67, and their three-year-old daughter Athena, out of the public eye, rarely sharing photos and attending events solo.<\/p>\n

The Lady Spencer travels the world, visiting the Hamptons, Cape Town, the French Riviera, and Florence. She was seen partying with A-listers at Cannes Film Festival and with Princess Charlene and Prince Albert of Monaco<\/a> at the Bal de la Rose charity gala.<\/p>\n

Last week, Kitty shared photos of the \u201csweetest summertime\u201d in the Hamptons with her family, including a video of Michael and Athena playing in the sea.<\/p>\n

In other photos, she showed herself in a bikini, family trips to the supermarket, footprints in the sand, and Athena feeding farm animals.<\/p>\n

Kitty met Michael in 2018 through mutual friends and married three years later in Italy. Two years later, in 2023, the couple welcomed Athena, only announcing her birth in 2024.<\/p>\n

Lady Kitty is a first cousin to Princes William and Harry, which means that Athena is a second cousin to Princes George, Louis and Archie as well as Princesses Charlotte and Lilibet.<\/p>\n

Princess Diana reportedly once dreamed of a similar life, with friends suggesting she wanted to move to America for a quieter life with her two children, Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2020 Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, told CBS News: ‘I remember she set out in her sitting room, the plans of a home in Malibu\u2026and she said to me: “I’m buying this house, to give William and Harry a new perspective on life.”‘<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Diana\u2019s niece is far from the royal life, living an ultra-private life with her billionaire husband. Lady…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,168769,111512,111,139,69,18320,223049,292980],"class_list":["post-594386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-lady-kitty-spencer","tag-michael-lewis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-princess-diana","tag-royal-section","tag-ultra-private-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594386","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=594386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}