Princess Diana's Niece Lady Eliza Spencer Shares Look Inside Intimate Engagement Party

Prince William and Prince Harry’s cousin Lady Eliza Spencer and Channing Millerd celebrated their engagement in Cape Town, South Africa, five months after getting engaged in Santorini, Greece.

By Gibson Johns Dec 22, 2025 5:17 PM
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Watch: Princess Diana's Niece Lady Eliza Spencer is Engaged

A royal engagement, indeed.

Princess Diana's niece Lady Eliza Spencer celebrated her engagement party in Cape Town, South Africa, nearly five months after Channing Millerd, who she had been dating for a decade, popped the question.

The 33-year-old—whose father is the late Princess of Wales’ younger brother Charles Spencer—gave her followers an inside look at the festive celebration by reposting a few snaps on her Instagram Story Dec. 22, which included her gorgeous Galia Lahav A-line mini dress that featured white floral appliques covering a sheer bodice and a square neckline. She paired the frock with sparkling pumps and a slicked back 'do.

Channing, meanwhile, looked handsome in a blue linen shirt and white pants, while Eliza's twin sister Amelia Spencer Mallett stunned in a pleated light green mini dress. Also there their mother Victoria Aitken, their older sister Kitty Spencer, 34, and their half-brother Samuel Aitken, 22.

Eliza announced her engagement to Channing back in July, sharing photos from his picturesque proposal in Santorini, Greece, that showed off her teardrop-cut diamond ring that she captioned, "Forever and ever."

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She later called the moment "an out-of-body experience."

"I laughed and I cried," she recalled to Hello! in an interview published Dec. 8. "I don't know how he pulled it all off, but it was so special. He did the most amazing job – above and beyond. I couldn't have dreamt of such a beautiful setting. It really was a dream come true."

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The couple then enjoyed an intimate candlelit dinner, deciding to hold off on telling any of the family and friends their exciting news for an hour or two so that they could soak in the moment for themselves first—before calling Amelia and her husband Greg Mallett.

"We had some champagne and were reminiscing about our nine-year journey together, taking it in," she recounted. "But first was Amelia; it had to be Amelia. We FaceTimed Amelia and Greg, and then we called both our family groups. There were a lot of tears."

The happy couple first met at a dinner party that Greg organized in South Africa, which is where Eliza and her sisters were raised, nearly 15 years ago.

"I'd been single for about two years and wasn't really socialising much," Eliza remembered. "I didn't plan to go, but Amelia and my best friend dragged me there."

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As for their wedding plans, Eliza and Channing have yet to nail down a location.

"Some of our best memories have been made in the Mediterranean," she mused. "Then, at the same time, all of our friends and family have done weddings in Cape Town. I've never been to Lake Como, but it looks so beautiful. I think that would be my dream destination, but we still have to visit it first."

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