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Prince Harry is busy living his best life right now.

After severing some ties with the Royal family, he is expecting his second child soon and has been working with Oprah Winfrey for their new series about mental health, in between getting new start-up BetterUp off the ground.

He’s got a lot going on, so we will give him a little space and talk about his cousin instead, dubbed ‘Harry Lite’.

Being publicity-shy, Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, the 27-year old nephew of Princess Diana, has been coming into the public’s eye slowly but surely.

The ‘Harry lite’ hysteria began at Prince Harry’s wedding in May 2018, when Louis, then 24 and bearded, was photographed walking alongside his twin sisters, Eliza and Kitty, as well as his mother, Victoria, reports The Telegraph.

A few months later, Tatler named him one of the world’s most eligible bachelors, alongside Prince Nikolai of Denmark and Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece.

Here’s Louis at Harry’s wedding:

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There was also an image posted on Nicki Minaj’s Instagram back in 2015 that threw some spotlight on Louis:

 

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The reason Louis managed to stay out of the media spotlight for so long is, in part, thanks to Cape Town.

He mostly grew up under our mighty Table Mountain, and went to school at Diocesan College, commonly known as Bishops.

The British educational principle that Bishops was founded upon would have played a role, considering how it has always been a tradition for the Spencer heirs to be educated at Eton or Harrow.

His father, Diana’s brother, Charles, 9th Earl Spencer, and his mother, Victoria Lockwood, moved their four kids to South Africa, a year after Louis was born in 1994, for the sake of privacy.

Here they are, with Louis’ twin sisters:

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Only after school did Louis return to Britain as a student at Edinburgh University.

Despite being private and shy, he is an aspiring actor, it turns out.

Luckily for him, showbusiness insiders predict a dazzling future for him:

Jonathan Shalit, chairman of the InterTalent agency, says: “In terms of judging his potential there’s what he looks like and his family name … The Americans will love him, in particular. He’ll get some good roles from his name alone. And he’s good looking.”

A full body shot is in order:

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Anyway, the ‘shy’ aristocrat is back in the spotlight again, following an interview his sister, Lady Kitty Spencer, gave to Town & Country magazine:

…she discusses male primogeniture and how it means her family estate will automatically pass to him on their father’s death, despite having three older sisters.

His family’s estate, Althorp, is a 90-room, 100 000 square-foot Northamptonshire property:

 

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It’s quite the lavish home:

[It boasts] not only a distinguished portrait gallery, but grounds containing 28 subsidiary listed structures, plus an ornamental lake with the island on which Diana, Princess of Wales, is buried.

There are other houses in Northamptonshire, Norfolk and Warwickshire [that Louis will also inherit], plus farming, forestry and field sports businesses, property in London and rents coming in at all angles.

When the roof had to be fixed, a Christie’s “attic sale” of art, furniture, uniforms and carriages raised more than £21 million.

Again, despite having three older sisters, he is the heir to both estate and earldom.

Debate around male primogeniture has once again thrust him into the limelight, and it will be interesting to see how he juggles the dual responsibilities of an acting career with managing his family’s massive estate.

[source:telegraph]