Overview
- The divorce was concluded in December after nearly two years of negotiations, with the judge noting several issues are still "hotly disputed."
- The court has yet to decide what amount Earl Spencer must pay his former wife in connection with litigation involving Professor Cat Jarman.
- Jarman’s misuse-of-private-information case against Karen Spencer was settled out of court in December with no admission of liability, and a court ruled some costs would be met via the earl through the divorce.
- Under the agreement, Karen Spencer keeps her title, and if the earl remarries she would be styled as Countess Spencer without the definite article.
- Conflicting accounts of how the marriage ended persist, with Karen Spencer’s lawyer alleging a divorce text and the earl denying that version of events.