The wedding between Lady Bianca Eliot of Port Eliot, St Germans, and the brother of Lady Diana, princess of Wales, has been called off, it was confirmed this week.

Legal representatives for the earl, whose two previous marriages ended in divorce, say the couple, whose engagement was announced in March and whose wedding had been imminent, have confirmed the marriage had been called off some time ago but that they remain 'good friends'. Lady Bianca, the widow of Lord Jago Eliot, the 40-year-old heir to the Port Eliot Estate at St Germans, met Earl Spencer in 2008 at an exclusive London club and they had planned to marry this month.