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Raine Spencer married Diana's father, John, Earl Spencer when the future Princess of Wales was just 15. The circumstances were traumatic; the Spencer's own mother, Frances, had walked out.
During her long lifetime (she died in 2016, aged 87), Raine Spencer was perhaps best known as the bouffant-haired stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Raine Spencer lived in the luxurious two-bedroom Grosvenor Square flat with her first husband, the 9th Earl of Dartmouth
The late Spencer, otherwise known as Princess Diana's stepmother, had used this unit as an office and political base while on the Westminster City Council.
Peter Wetherell, Founder and Executive Chairman of Wetherell, estimated it would cost £10.5 million to renovate the empty shell which was once Countess Raine Spencer's apartment in Mayfair.