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  • The Spencers are a very organized and hard-working family, I hardly see them on the weekdays, but on the weekends they stay at home and Onyka -one of two of the Spencer children- who just turned three last December, comes up on the weekends to color and always asks to listen to Calypso, her favorite kind of music.

    The Peace Corps Thing Ross 2006

  • The Spencers are a very organized and hard-working family, I hardly see them on the weekdays, but on the weekends they stay at home and Onyka -one of two of the Spencer children- who just turned three last December, comes up on the weekends to color and always asks to listen to Calypso, her favorite kind of music.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Ross 2006

  • "So 'Spencers' can make more money out of it," said Rudolph bitterly.

    Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Getty Images Pedestrians walked past a Marks and Spencers store in Glasgow, Scotland, in this file photo from Nov. 8, 2011.

    Price Cuts Weigh on U.K. Retailers Kathy Gordon 2012

  • There was no explanation of the seating arrangement, but the Spencers have not had a good relationship with the royal family, especially after Diana's brother Charles Spencer attacked the royals during a speech at her 1997 funeral.

    Official Royal Wedding Guest List, Seating Plan Released 2011

  • I would love to see all the Spencers together again, especially since soaps seem to be on their way out.

    Lucky us, Jonathan Jackson's back on 'General Hospital' | EW.com 2009

  • Since the Spencers claimed Oxford as their alma mater and Papa went to Cambridge, those two universities were out.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • See where the Windsors, the Middletons, the Spencers, other royals and friends will be seated in Westminster Abbey Friday for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

    The Royal Seating Chart 2011

  • Both the Middletons and the Spencers are direct descendants of seventeenth-century English statesman Sir Thomas Fairfax, making Kate and Prince William fifteenth cousins.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • The Spencers, after all, had already announced their intention to attend en masse.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

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