**HEADLINE:** the Cat Wedding of the Century: Charles Spencer Channels Louis XVI as Meghan’s Unseen Guest List Sparks a Windsor Rivalry

HEADLINE: The Cat Wedding of the Century: Charles Spencer Channels Louis XVI as Meghan’s Unseen Guest List Sparks a Windsor Rivalry

Dateline: Althorp, Northamptonshire — History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes with taffeta and a litter box. On Saturday, Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl of Althorp, proved that the aristocracy has gone fully feral.

In a ceremony that blended Baroque excess with a scene straight out of a Wes Anderson fever dream, the Earl married his long-time partner, media producer Catrina “Cat” Jarman. The twist? The bride was wearing a custom Alexander McQueen gown designed for a woman with four legs and a tail.

Yes, Cat did not attend.

The “bride”—a rescue Maine Coon named Princess Minette—was carried down the aisle of Althorp’s Wren Orangery by Spencer’s daughters, Lady Kitty and Lady Amelia. Guests were handed “Fleur de Litter” boxes containing catnip truffles and velvet mouse favors.

The Historical Echo: The Fête of the Double-Headed Cat (Versailles, 1783)

Historians are already drawing comparisons to the infamous Fête des Chats thrown by Marie Antoinette at the Petit Trianon, where the queen dressed her lapdogs in diamond collars and forced courtiers to attend a “cat salon” to mock the stodgy etiquette of Louis XVI’s court. That event was widely viewed as the moment the French monarchy lost the plot—a decadent distraction while the country starved.

Spencer’s “Cat Wedding” comes just weeks after reports that Prince Harry’s Spare audiobook revealed secret rhubarb-foraging sessions at Althorp. Insiders say the Earl—once the most private of the Spencer siblings—is now openly mocking the “Sussex circus”