Lady Kitty Spencer
Lady Kitty Spencer — if you know one of Charles Spencer’s seven children by name, it is almost certainly her. The eldest daughter of the 9th Earl Spencer, born in 1990, Kitty Spencer has spent a decade as one of fashion’s most recognisable aristocratic faces: a Bulgari and Dolce & Gabbana spokesmodel who walked the line between the runway and the royal family tree. In September 2026 she is back in the headlines, with rare family photographs and a high-profile London premiere putting Diana’s niece firmly back in the public eye.
Diana’s niece, William and Harry’s cousin
The family position first. Kitty is the eldest child of Charles Spencer’s first marriage, to Victoria Aitken (married 1989, divorced 1997). That makes her Princess Diana’s niece and a first cousin of Princes William and Harry — the Spencer cousin most often photographed, and the one whose public profile most closely tracks the family’s peculiar position: aristocratic but not royal, famous but not quite celebrity.
She has three full siblings from that first marriage — the twins Lady Eliza and Lady Amelia Spencer, and Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, the heir to the earldom — plus three half-siblings from her father’s later marriages.
The modelling career: Bulgari and Dolce & Gabbana
Kitty Spencer’s fashion career is the real thing, not a title trading on a name. Signed as a model in her twenties, she became a spokesmodel for Bulgari and for Dolce & Gabbana — fronting campaigns, walking runways, and becoming a fixture of the front row at Milan and Paris fashion weeks. The Dolce & Gabbana relationship runs deeper than endorsements: the house designed her wedding dress.
It is a career that has aged well into her thirties. Where many aristocratic models flame out after a season or two of novelty bookings, Spencer built a sustained working relationship with two of the industry’s biggest houses — a testament, her supporters say, to professionalism as much as profile.
The wedding: Villa Aldobrandini, July 2021
On July 24, 2021, Kitty Spencer married the billionaire businessman Michael Lewis — 67, chairman of the South African retail group TFG Limited — at the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati, Italy, in a Dolce & Gabbana gown. The age gap made headlines; the setting made the photographs. It was, by any measure, one of the society weddings of the decade, and it cemented her status as the Spencer sibling the public feels it knows.
Motherhood: daughter Athena
In April 2023 the couple welcomed a daughter, Athena — making Charles Spencer a grandfather and giving the Spencer family its newest generation. Motherhood has coincided with a deliberate step back from the constant fashion-week circuit; her appearances since have been chosen, not constant.
September 2026: the Hamptons photos and the London premiere
Which is why this month’s sightings matter. Rare family photographs of Kitty with husband Michael Lewis and daughter Athena in the Hamptons surfaced in September 2026, covered by Parade and Page Six — the kind of candid, off-duty images she seldom permits. Days later she attended the European premiere of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” in London, back on a red carpet in full fashion mode.
The two appearances together tell the story of her current position: private family life guarded carefully, public fashion life deployed strategically. At 35, a wife, a mother, and still the fashion houses’ favourite aristocrat, Lady Kitty Spencer has worked out a balance that eludes most people born into her kind of spotlight — and the September headlines suggest she intends to keep it.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Lady Kitty Spencer — b. 1990; model; Bulgari and Dolce & Gabbana spokesmodel; married Michael Lewis July 24, 2021 at Villa Aldobrandini, Italy; daughter Athena b. April 2023
- Wikipedia: Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer — children with Victoria Aitken (m. 1989, div. 1997)
This article is based on Wikipedia’s cited biography of Lady Kitty Spencer and September 2026 reporting by Parade and Page Six on the Hamptons family photographs and the “Devil Wears Prada 2” European premiere in London. Private family details are limited to what has been publicly reported.