The Spencers of Althorp
By: Georgina Battiscombe.
Publisher: Constable
Published: 1984
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Spencer family; Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961- -- Family; Althorp (England); Princesses -- Great Britain -- Genealogy; Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography; Northamptonshire (England) -- History
Description: 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).
Notes: Bibliography: p. 262-263.
Includes index.