He was born at St Mary's Hospital, London in Westminster, London, the fourth child and eldest son of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Victoria Lockwood.
[2] A year after he was born, his family moved to Cape Town in South Africa, where he grew up.
[1] Lord Althorp was a pupil at Diocesan College in Cape Town, and later enrolled at the University of Edinburgh.
[3] He graduated from Arts Educational Schools in London, on 6 September 2022, as the valedictorian.
[4] English male primogeniture law dictates that Lord Althorp, not his elder sister, Lady Kitty Spencer, who is her father's firstborn child, will inherit the Spencer title.