Lady Kitty Spencer just dropped one of the rarest looks yet into her carefully guarded private life. The 35-year-old model and niece of the late Princess Diana posted a carousel of Hamptons holiday photos and video that include her 67-year-old husband Michael Lewis playing in the ocean with their three-year-old daughter Athena.
The Instagram post, captioned “Sweetest summertime in the Hamptons 🌸,” centers on a short video of Lewis holding the toddler as waves wash around them. It is one of the few times the South African-born British retail executive has appeared alongside his wife and child on her account. Other frames show Athena at a farmers market loading vegetables into a basket, watering a garden of yellow and orange flowers, and drawing with washable crayons on the windows of their vacation home. Kitty herself appears in a polka-dot bikini in several shots.
Lewis, chairman of The Foschini Group, has built a career far from the spotlight. The company operates more than 5,000 stores across 23 countries and owns major South African fashion and lifestyle brands. He rarely features in public or on social media, making the beach video a notable exception. The couple met through mutual friends in 2018, became engaged in late 2019, and married in a multi-day celebration at Villa Aldobrandini near Rome in July 2021. Kitty wore several custom Dolce & Gabbana dresses for the events. They have three adult stepchildren from Lewis’s previous marriage and welcomed Athena on April 29, 2023. The birth stayed private for nearly a year until Kitty confirmed motherhood on Mother’s Day 2024.
Kitty, the eldest daughter of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, and former model Victoria Lockwood, grew up largely in Cape Town after her parents’ divorce. She studied at the University of Cape Town and later earned a master’s in luxury brand management in London. As a first cousin of Prince William and Prince Harry, she has balanced a modeling career and brand ambassadorships with Dolce & Gabbana and Bulgari while keeping her family life tightly controlled. Athena’s face is almost always shielded in posts, and joint images of the full family remain scarce.
The Hamptons share fits a pattern of selective glimpses rather than full exposure. Earlier summers included matching Ralph Lauren flag sweaters on the beach and quiet Tuscan getaways. This latest post drew warm comments from Kitty’s twin sisters, Lady Eliza and Lady Amelia Spencer, and others in their circle. For a Spencer niece who could easily live in the full glare of royal-adjacent attention, the choice to keep the volume low continues to define how she and Lewis raise their daughter.
