Archaeologist Dr Cat Jarman posted a black-and-white photograph of her husband, Earl Charles Spencer, on Instagram this week, describing a visit to the grave of his infant brother at the Church of St Mary Magdalen on the Sandringham estate (Hello! Magazine).

Jarman, who posts under the handle @profcatspencer, wrote in her caption that Spencer had taken her to see the resting place of his brother, John Spencer, who died on 12 January 1960, just after birth. The infant was buried beside his and Charles's grandfather at the same church.

The Church of St Mary Magdalen sits beside Park House, the former Spencer family home on the Sandringham estate where Charles Spencer and his siblings grew up. Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and younger brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, had John's headstone restored a few years before Jarman's post.

The visit comes just weeks after the couple married in a private ceremony in Sedona, Arizona, on 15 May 2026, as confirmed by People magazine (People). Jarman wore a pale blue sleeveless gown with cutout details for the occasion. The marriage is Spencer's fourth; he finalised his third divorce five months before the wedding.

Spencer confirmed the relationship with Jarman in October 2024, after the two had been working together on excavating a Roman villa at Althorp, the Spencer family seat in Northamptonshire. Jarman, a bioarchaeologist, previously studied a mass Viking grave site of more than 300 individuals.

For the couple, the Sandringham visit folds together the personal and the archaeological. Jarman's profession is the study of human remains and burial sites. Her new husband's family has one of the most photographed private burial grounds in Britain, including the island grave of Diana at Althorp. The churchyard at St Mary Magdalen, smaller and quieter, belongs to the same story.