Blood Royal: The Story Of The Spencers And The Royals - Plot & Excerpts
But what seems clear is that after Margaret’s death, Jack’s life was ruled by a conscious effort not to succumb to the weaknesses which had made his father’s life a misery. This made him very much his father’s opposite. He lacked his father’s good looks and his father’s vanity. Distrusting charm in others, he was virtually devoid of charm himself. He despised uncertainty, and throughout his life infuriated others by his conviction that he was always right. He also despised weakness, which could make him something of a bully. He was the first of the Spencers to break with the Whig family tradition and openly declare himself a Tory. He was also at heart an intellectual, although this was something else that he kept hidden - possibly because his father had rather prided himself upon his intellect. Jack Spencer would probably have been the last man in London to have made a friend of Edmund Gosse - and vice versa. He was still a serving officer in the First Life Guards in the summer of 1922 when he took over Althorp as seventh Earl Spencer, and it was through military eyes that he surveyed the wreckage.
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