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- Catherine Spencer (born 1950) is a popular Canadian writer of over 40 romance novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd from 1986 to 2009. She also signed her books as Kathy Orr.
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Catherine Spencer (born 1950) is a popular Canadian writer of over 40 romance novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd from 1986 to 2009. She also signed her books as Kathy Orr.
Jul 27, 2021 · Lady Kitty Spencer has confirmed her mother Victoria Aitken attended her lavish wedding in Rome at the weekend - after their father Charles Spencer was notably absent.
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- 'I had to cover up my emotions'
- Putting women's rugby on the map
Former England Women captain Catherine Spencer chats exclusively to Sky Sports about her quest to win a Rugby World Cup, and the struggles of not achieving it.
Speaking as a guest on this week's Will Greenwood Podcast, Spencer - who won 63 caps for England between 2004 and 2011, and captained her country from 2007 - opened up about her emotional story and newly-released autobiography Mud, Maul, Mascara.
The 40-year-old divulged how fighting for a dream can make and break you, and in her case how two Rugby World Cup final losses in 2006 and 2010 - the latter at the Twickenham Stoop - were incredibly hard to deal with.
"[The book] is an honest portrayal of my emotions around my rugby journey and specifically my quest to win the Rugby World Cup. Getting close on one occasion, very close on a second occasion and not quite getting there," she said.
"It's quite brutal in a way. The beginning of the book is quite hard to read, and it was hard to write. It does open up the emotional toil of trying to achieve a dream, which for me was trying to win a Rugby World Cup.
"It was really difficult. To put things into context, we'd lost in 2006 but we had a really good four years in between the two World Cups. We'd beaten New Zealand in 2009 at Twickenham, which was a fantastic day for the team and really spurred us on towards the World Cup in 2010.
Four years on from that narrow World Cup final defeat, Spencer was in a studio post-retirement for Sky Sports taking in the 2014 Rugby World Cup final, as the Red Roses beat Canada in Paris to become world champions.
The No 8 was crying in the studio at the time but admits now they were not necessarily tears of joy that the viewer might have thought they were.
"They weren't. Some were in the sense that Sophie Hemming and Maggie Alphonsi, my best mates out there playing and they've just won a World Cup. For Gary Street, Graham Smith, fantastic.
"But overwhelmingly really, these emotions started flooding out that it hadn't happened four years ago. And we should have done, it should have happened. I was devastated for myself that it didn't.
"And I had all these emotions that I didn't necessarily want to feel, but didn't have control over. It was a good job it was on Sky, because we went for an ad break! I could compose myself a little bit and patch-up my mascara!
"It was difficult. I enjoy doing work in a studio for myself, but I was also so aware that I was still a former England captain, and of the job to be an ambassador for our sport. That's what I needed to do at that time in the studio.
If the 2014 final victory was a breakthrough moment, it was 2010 which felt like the day women's rugby was put on the map though.
That tournament and the huge crowd for the final all added up to the fact something had changed. The way women's rugby was perceived, branded, covered.
Despite it being a day of immense personal disappointment therefore, can Spencer look back on it now as having been part of something with a long-term importance?
"I remember after the final in the bar area and two guys came up to me and said: 'If you'd told us four or five weeks ago that we would actually pay for a ticket to come and watch women's rugby, we would not have believed you.'
"And it was a direct result of the coverage, of the televised matches. Media coverage had made them go and pay money to watch a women's match, and that epitomised it in a way.
"People did start to follow us and they didn't have to seek out or hunt for coverage because it was starting to become a bit more apparent for anyone in the general rugby audience and environment.
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Sep 19, 2017 · Catherine Spencer is the founder of Inspiring Women and contributor to Switch the Play, fulfilling potential through and beyond sport.
Catherine Victoria Aitken (née Lockwood; born 20 April 1965), formerly Victoria, Countess Spencer, is a British former fashion model and former wife of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
A complete list of all Catherine Spencer's books in order (52 books). Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards.
Lady Catherine “Kitty” Eleanor Lewis [a] (née Spencer; born 28 December 1990) is a British model and aristocrat. She is the eldest child of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, niece of Diana, Princess of Wales and the first cousin of William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
