Lady Amelia Spencer is one of the seven children of Charles Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother. She was five when Diana died in a car crash and grew up away from the spotlight in South Africa. Amelia, 30, and her twin sister are signed as models, but she also works as a wedding planner.

Amelia is one of Princess Diana’s many nieces and nephews from her three siblings, Sarah, Jane and Charles.

The late Princess Diana was among the three surviving children that her parents John Spencer, eighth Earl Spencer, and Frances Shand Kydd had. The Spencers are an aristocratic family with a long history of nobility and intermingling with royalty.

Lady Amelia is part of the next generation of the family dynasty. Here’s what we know about her life.

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Lady Amelia Spencer comes from a big family

Amelia has a twin sister called Eliza. They were born in July 1992 in London, UK.

Their mother Victoria Lockwood had two other children with their father Charles: Lady Kitty Spencer, 32, and Louis, 29.

Her father was very close to Princess Diana

Amelia’s father Charles was in his early 30s when Diana died.

As the youngest siblings in the Spencer family, Charles and his sister Diana reportedly formed a close bond. He told The Sunday Times in 2021 that they grew up together at Althorp House, the family estate. Their childhood was impacted by their parents’ divorce, he said. “Diana and I had two older sisters who were away at school, so she and I were very much in it together and I did talk to her about it,” he said.

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Charles, who was three years younger than Diana, later played a significant role at her funeral in 1997. He gave a moving eulogy and walked alongside his nephews, William and Harry, as they followed her coffin at her funeral procession.

He later described that walk as the “most horrifying half-hour” of his life and said he has had nightmares about it in the years since, according to The Guardian.

Amelia’s mother was described as “the most beautiful woman in the world”

Amelia’s mother, Victoria Aitken, is a former model, once reportedly described by Ralph Lauren as “the most beautiful woman in the world”.

The pair had a relatively short engagement, with Charles proposing six weeks after they first met, according to Hello! magazine. Aitken and Charles were married for eight years, from 1989 to 1997.

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During a 2004 interview with Hello! magazine, Aitken opened up about battling anorexia and substance abuse issues in her first marriage.

“There are no holidays from this illness,” she said. “The price of freedom is constant vigilance, I attend recovery meetings every week and I will do so for the rest of my life.”

Moving to South Africa

During an interview with The Telegraph in 2021, Amelia and Eliza recalled the benefits of growing up in South Africa, away from the spotlight of the British media.

“Cape Town was all about the sea, hiking, horse riding, tennis, netball … After high school and university, we were so happy that we didn’t feel the need to move,” Amelia said.

They lived a relatively low-key lifestyle there – she said they only ever really used their formal titles when visiting the UK, where their father continued to live. “Only in England. We’ve never heard [the titles] outside the UK. We don’t use them, but people use them to us,” she said.

“We were so lucky to have a normal, relaxed childhood. Public scrutiny didn’t exist at all,” Eliza added.

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Finding love

While attending the University of Cape Town, Amelia met her partner Greg Mallett, who proposed after 11 years of dating.

Mallett is reportedly a property agent. In 2020, he proposed during a trip the pair took to the Clouds Wine and Guest Estate, a boutique hotel and working wine farm in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Speaking to Hello! magazine about their engagement in 2020, Amelia said they had visited the location a few times on “special occasions”.

“I remember every detail, from her little character traits to what the sun was doing at the time,” Mallett said. “It was a really special memory for us both.”

“It was so romantic, it was the most romantic night,” she added.

She’s a model and wedding planner …

Like their mother, Amelia and Eliza pursued careers in modelling. However, Amelia is also an experienced wedding planner.

According to her bio with her modelling agency, Storm Models, Amelia moved to London and started pursuing a career in modelling full-time.

“She is just beginning her career as a model and made her debut in a beautiful 20-page cover story with her twin sister Eliza for Tatler Magazine, and is living full time in London where she is developing her career and working full time as a model and an ambassador for a variety of luxury brands,” the bio said.

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“Away from the media spotlight, Amelia has a very successful career as a wedding planner in South Africa, and has arranged 36 weddings to date,” it added.

… and a VIP at fashion events

In the past few months alone, Amelia has been spotted front row at runways at fashion weeks in New York and Milan, according to media reports.

During London Fashion Week in February, she went from spectator to walking the runway herself alongside her sister Eliza at the Josh Birch Jones show.

In 2022, she also shared an Instagram post of photos of her and Eliza with their significant others at Royal Ascot, an annual horse race event frequently attended by the royal family.