The Spencers of Althorp
by Georgina Battiscombe
Category: Althorp (Northamptonshire)

The Spencer family, part of the nobility of England, between 1330 and the present. "The first known ancestors of the Princess of Wales were sheep farmers and Althorp came into the family when successive John Spencers first tenanted and then bought the property at the end of the fifteenth century." (Flyleaf of paper cover).