Prince Harry's uncle gushes about 'brilliant' new girlfriend after bitter split from third wife

The uncle of and confirmed he is in a new relationship with a "brilliant archaeologist" after splitting from his third wife.

Diana, ’s brother revealed he met Norwegian-born Cat Jarman when she came to dig up a Roman villa on his land. The pair, along with Reverend Richard Coles, became co-hosts of the popular history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, with the trio writing a trivia book to accompany the series.

It emerged earlier this year that the dad of seven Earl Spencer had separated from his third wife Karen. And today he told ’s hosts and Richard Madeley: "Cat Jarman, who is my partner now actually. She’s a brilliant archaeologist.

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"It sounds like an Alan Partridge title, but she is Nordic Person of 2024, which is usually handed out to someone like Sven-Goran Eriksson or a composer to be Nordic Person of the Year." He added: "Well, first of all, I met her because we both had the same publisher but secondly, I know this sounds rather bizarre but she came to dig up a Roman villa on some land I’ve got.

"Richard, Cat and I would end up together and Richard had been recently bereaved so was semi-living with me and the three of us would just talk and talk and talk. Cat said 'Let’s do a podcast' and out of the podcast came the book."

On the show, the earl also spoke about his sister, the late princess, and how he visits her burial site on an island at his ancestral home, Althorp House, almost every day. "Every day people tell me what an inspiration she was and how much they miss her, what they did the day she died," he said.

Diana – the mother of the Prince of Wales and the – was just 36 when she was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31 1997. "Like everyone else you sort of get used to it (grief) without it ever going away. I go pretty much every day there," the earl added.

Diana's Spencer family is said to have remained close to William and Harry, especially the Duke of Sussex, taking part in several very public shows of support for him. When released his memoir, Spare, he thanked his uncle in the acknowledgement. Charles Spencer also attended Harry's service at St Paul's Cathedral for the 10th anniversary for the Invictus Games back in May and posted on social media how he was proud to attend wearing his late father, and Harry's grandfather, John Spencer's Royal Scots Greys regimental cufflinks.

Last month, PEOPLE magazine reported that on Harry's UK trip to attend a family memorial service, he stayed with his uncle at Althorp. Diana is buried on an island in the middle of Althorp estate's Round Oval Lake. In his memoir Spare, Harry recalls visiting his mother's final resting place and also taking his wife there on the 25th anniversary of her death.