However, this was not enough to stop Earl Spencer's son and heir, Charles, Viscount Althorp (later the ninth Earl)  from describing his stepmother's taste in decoration as having "the wedding cake vulgarity of a five-star hotel in Monaco."
Despite this, Earl Spencer's son and heir, Charles, Viscount Althorp (later the ninth Earl), still found it necessary to criticize his stepmother's taste in decoration by referring to it as having "the wedding cake crudeness of a five-star hotel in Monaco."