Lord Spencer about to wed ... again

Four months ago,  Earl Spencer announced that his engagement to Bianca, Lady Eliot was over, and there would be no wedding.   One wonders if she gave back the £25,000 diamond engagement ring.   Well, that was September 2010.  It's now February 2011.
 It's time for a new fiancee.  
Lord Spencer has announced his engagement to Canadian-born Karen Gorden, a divorcee, who runs the Los Angeles-based charity, Who Children International. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1357198/Earl-Spencer-wed-time-ditching-fiancee-just-months-ago.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/8327471/Earl-Spencer-to-marry-for-third-time-after-announcing-engagement-to-Canadian-divorcee.html

The private wedding is set to take place at Althorp on June 18.  One can expect to see Karen accompanying Charles to his nephew's wedding. 
The former Karen Villenueve was born thirty nine years ago  in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.   She attended college briefly in Toronto, but decided she wanted to model.  She modeled for clothing catalogs, and supplemented her salary by working at the front desk of the Four Seasons hotel in Toronto.    It was while she was working at the posh hotel where met her future husband, Hollywood producer Mark Gordon, whose successes include Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot and the current hit TV series, Grey's Anatomy.
The couple married in 1997.   Karen gave birth to two daughters before separating from her husband in 2003.  She received a hefty divorce settlement, and use $1.3 million of the settlement to start her charity.
http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2007/0212/076.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/790851/the_karen_gordon_story.html

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Canadian+woman+marry+Princess+brother/4289449/story.html

Mrs Gordon is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Clinton Global Initiative.  In 2010, she co-authored two articles in the peer-reviewed Infant Journal of Mental Health.


I hope they have his-and-hers pre-nups.

Lord Spencer's conquests:

 *  Victoria Lockwood.  Married September 16, 1989.  Divorced December 3, 1997.   Lord Spencer apparently cheated on Victoria during the marriage.  According to the divorce proceedings, Charles slept with 10-12 women while his wife was getting treatment for an eating disorder.  One of the former

 *  Chantal Collopy.    In 1997, Collopy told Sky News that Charles had ended their affair because he could not accept her two children.  They had made plans to marry but Chantal said he got "cold feet" after her own marriage had broken down.
"I was devastated by the fact that my family was now broken," she said. "I was now divorced with no one. I suddenly started feeling ... very insecure about the way I looked and started worrying about my weight because he had mentioned to me that I should not get fat ... I know what she has gone through
Chantal testified in Victoria's favor during the divorce trial.  During his first marriage, Charles tried to seduce Patricia Guppy, when her husband, Darius, was in jail for insurance fraud.  Charles had served as the best man at their wedding in 1991.   Patricia eventually told her husband about Charles' attempt, after hearing other women talk about how Charles tried to seduce them.  Darius called Charles to confront him with Patricia's statement. Charles offered vehement denials, but Darius did not believe him.  Charles went over to Guppy's home -- they were both living in South Africa at the time -- and got into a fight with Guppy.  The two men went at each, throwing blows and kicks. Charles emerged from Guppy's home with "a fractured cheekbone and injuries to his ribs and nose."  He said the injuries came while playing cricket. 

*   Caroline Hutton, divorced wife of Matthew Freud.  Married December 15, 2001. Separated in 2006, weeks after the birth of the couple's second child.

*   Coleen Sullivan, an American TV reporter, met Charles when she interviewed him in 2006.  She broke up with her fiance, left her home in California, and moved in with Charles at Althorp.  He dumped her in June 2008

*   Jane Yarrow.  Former wife of a City financier, David Yarrow.  First spotted holding Charles' hand in Chelsea in  July 2008.  Their relationship ended after only a few weeks, and it was reported that Jane did the dumping.  Jane was the public relations director who put Elizabeth Hurley in the Versace dress held together with safety pins.

*   Bianca, Lady Eliot.  Bianca, the widow of Lord Eliot, heir to the Earl of St. Germain, met Charles Spencer in a London Club in October 2008.  It was "love at first sight."  They became engaged in March 2010, and planned to get married in September 2010.   The wedding was called off in September "after a series of rows and heated exchanges."
    
Was Karen Gordon the reason for these rows and heated exchanges?