Earl Spencer’s son, Ned dismisses ‘nepo child’ declare regardless of DJ profession
Charles Spencer‘s youngest son tends to keep his name out of the spotlight, but in a new interview, British aristocrat Ned Spencer dismissed claims he’s a ‘nepo baby‘ and said he’d worked ‘almost too hard’ to reach his career as a DJ.
In an interview for Tatler’s July edition, Earl Spencer’s son, formally, known as the Hon Edmund Spencer, told all of his tearaway life as a student DJ. ‘I’m so different, it’s crazy,’ he said.
Meanwhile rejecting ties to his privilege, the 20-year-old nephew of Princess Diana, has launched a surprisingly successful career in DJing while studying as a student at Oxford Brookes University.
Though the Spencer estate is not only more than 500 years old and comes with 13,000 acres of land, the potential heir of the estate, denied all suggestion that he had banked in on his family’s wealth.
When asked about his quick success as a barely 20-year-old performing in popular clubs and venues, he said: ‘I like to think I’ve got to this place because of just me.
Ned Spencer pictured next to his father, Charles Spencer, and his wife Karen, in 2012
‘I’ve worked really hard. Almost too hard.
It’s up to me now I am my own person I control what I do. Just let the music do the talking.’
Earlier this year, his father posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, to a ticket link to his youngest son’s upcoming show. He wrote: ‘My son Ned is DJ at the below event – tickets are available here.’
Having spent most of his life sheltered from the media, Ned isn’t as recognisable as some of his siblings who chose to lend their life to the spotlight.
Half sisters from Charles’ first marriage to Victoria Aitken, including Lady Kitty Spencer, 33, Lady Amelia Spencer, 31, and Lady Eliza Spencer, 31, are far more outgoing with their media presence.
The young DJ is one of nine siblings and half siblings, whom he his presumably close to since he has joined sister, Eliza and Amelia on several holiday to St Tropez and Ibiza.
He also said he regularly sees his three half brothers, Iscount Althorp from his father, 30, and Jonah, 27, and George Freud, 28, his mother’s sons from her marriage to Matthew Freud.
Ned also has two younger siblings, his sister Lady Lara, 18, and half-sister Lady Charlotte Diana, 11, who is Charles’s daughter with his stepmother Karen Countess Spencer.
Ned, who is formerly known as Hon Edmund Spencer, started DJing while at university and now hopes to build his career from it
Ned performing at a venue in London. Earlier this year, his father posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, to a ticket link to his youngest son’s upcoming show
Ned’s younger sister also prefers to step away from the spotlight though she was spotted in a rare appearance giving her father a cuddle at his book launch after the Earl shared the photo on his Instagram earlier this year.
Unlike his siblings’ obvious media presence, the Earl’s son insisted that even many of his friends don’t know his true identity.
When asked in the interview why he had chosen to change his first name for his on stage performances, the Gen Z aristocrat said: ‘I don’t want to use anyone’s name for my benefit. It’s a moral thing.’
Ned’s response to the suggestion that his family’s heritage had given him a leg up, was that this was impossible since DJing was too ‘different’ from Althorp, his father’s Northampton estate.
Despite denying the privileges afforded by his father’s vast estate, the young was willing to admit he found sanctuary in the Northampton estate and explained he’d been juggling between studying there and partying.
Ned, pictured covering a DJ set, admitted he didn’t want to completely change his name for performing because it might be too embarrassing
The young DJ sharing his upcoming performance dates.
Because of his lifestyle choice, Ned said he used Althorp as a retreat from heavy weekends and DJ shifts that start in the middle of the night.
Ned is a student at Oxford Brookes university studying Events Management. He said he hoped to turn his interest in live music into a fully fledged career.
On LinkedIn page, he described having :’…worked at Festivals, performed live DJ sets, and helped manage several DJ/ club nights.’
The youngster has performed at several venues including a sold out night at Corsica Studios, a popular nightclub in south London, as well as Ministry of Sound nightclub.
Though much his audience are under the influence of alcohol at the events, Ned claimed his needs were far simpler, requiring that only the music is ‘good’. The DJ even said he’s not interested in drinking alcohol.
Ned’s father, Charles Spencer, met his second wife, Caroline Hutton, in Ned’s university city of Oxford in 1989. The two connected after a successful date where the two enjoyed a hot chocolate together in the city.
They couple were engaged six later though their marriage only lasted eight years before he remarried Caroline, the mother of Ned. However, his marriage to Caroline fell through and the two were divorced six years later in 2007 when Ned was just three.
Following their split, Ned spent his childhood yo-yoing between his father’s house in Althorp and his mother’s Notting Hill home where he currently lives.
Though, the 20-year-old isn’t grateful for the bed and board at his mother’s central London home and said he hates the busyness of city life.
Luckily for the Earl’s son, he was able to spend much his younger years at leafy Bradfield College, a private school near Reading.
A far cry from his parents first date, the DJ aspiring son spent many hours performing so thousands of sweating dancing bodies at all kinds of venues in London and Oxford. The youngster is also due to perform at Reading, Boomtown, and Parklife this year.
Though much his audience are under the influence of alcohol at the events, Ned claimed his needs were far simpler, requiring that only the music is ‘good’. The DJ even said he’s not interested in drinking alcohol.
