Lady Kitty Spencer
This is Diana’s niece’s mysterious husband
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Two years ago, Lady Kitty Spencer and entrepreneur Michael Lewis celebrated a top-class wedding party. But who is the millionaire husband of Diana’s niece?
In the summer of 2021, Italy experienced the well most spectacular wedding of the year. Lady Kitty Spencer, 32, and Michael Lewis, 64, said yes on July 24 in a historic castle and celebrated a multi-day luxury break in and around Rome. The five magnificent “Dolce & Gabbana” robes of Princess Diana, † 36, niece were the focus of the action.
Kitty Spencer’s husband has been spotted for the first time since their 2021 wedding
The husband, who is five years older than his current father-in-law Charles Spencer, 59, nearly drowned in the spectacle. No wonder Lewis is considered camera shy. Almost two years later, Royal fans saw the fashion tycoon again for the first time. Michael Lewis first reappeared at a pre-wedding party hosted by Kitty’s sister Amelia Spencer, 31, who married Greg Mallett, 30, in March 2023. We take a closer look at Kitty Spencer’s mysterious husband.
Kitty Spencer’s husband Michael Lewis can be seen blurred in the upper right in the beige linen suit and graying hair.
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Michael Lewis is camera shy
Michael Lewis is worth several million and has an exciting CV. The South African-born businessman graduated from the University of Cape Town, according to the Wall Street Journal. In the 1980s he moved to London and five years later married Leola Lewis, with whom he had three sons. It is not known when the marriage ended in divorce.
Michael agrees, because unlike his wife Kitty, the entrepreneur avoids the limelight. Little is known about his private life. The couple has never been seen together at events. Some information can only be found about his professional career.
Entrepreneurial blood flows through the veins of the multi-millionaire
Michael Lewis comes from a family of entrepreneurs and is now firmly rooted in the fashion industry. His grandfather founded the Lewis furniture retail chain in the 1930s. Michael’s father, Stanley Lewis, used the family fortune to acquire a majority stake in the Foschini Group in the 1980s – and showed a lucky hand in the process.
The Foschini Group includes the successful British high street fashion chains Whistles and Phase Eight as well as a number of stores in South Africa and Australia. According to Wall Street Journal reports, Michael Lewis has been the group’s chairman since 2015.
Before assuming the post, Lewis founded a number of other companies, including Israeli biotechnology company ProChon Biotech Ltd. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the German Axel Springer Verlag.
Lewis is influential – not only in business
According to Business Insider, his estimated net worth is £80 million. According to the British “Evening Standard”, he is said to own a 19 million pound property in central London and another in the South African capital Cape Town.
According to Business Insider, Michael Lewis is one of the top financiers of the Conservative Party in the UK. In 2011, according to the British Daily Mail, his Jewish family donated three million pounds (about 4 million euros) to the University of Oxford to finance the appointment of a professor of Israel studies.
This is how Kitty and Michael’s love story began
Kitty and Michael reportedly met through mutual friends in 2018. Since then, there have been few recordings of the couple together. In December 2019, British media reported on an engagement for the first time. Both of them never confirmed that. Unlike at her wedding. On July 26, the model posted a wedding photo of herself and her sweetheart on Instagram. It’s the first couple picture that Kitty Spencer shared with her 733,000 followers.
Source used: standard.co.uk, wsj.com, businessinsider.co.za, instagram.com, dailymail.co.uk