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==Marriage and children==
On 1 June 1954, she married [[John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer|John Spencer, Viscount Althorp]] (later the 8th [[Earl Spencer (peerage)|Earl Spencer]]), at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref name=cor4june/> [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and other members of the [[British Royal Family|royal family]] attended the wedding ceremony.<ref name="mgaz1june">{{cite news|date=1 June 1954|title=Queen heads lists guests at wedding|newspaper=The Montreal Gazetta|location=London|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PYEtAAAAIBAJ&pg=5838,281319&dq=frances+ruth+roche&hl=en|access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> She was aged eighteen and became the youngest woman married in Westminster Abbey since 1893.<ref name=mgaz1june/>

They had five children:
* [[Lady Sarah McCorquodale]] (born 19 March 1955), who married Neil Edmund [[Clan McCorquodale|McCorquodale]], a second cousin once removed of her stepmother, [[Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer|Raine, Countess Spencer]].
* [[Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes]] (born 11 February 1957), who married [[Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes]], then [[Private Secretary to the Sovereign]].
* [[The Honourable]] John Spencer (12 January 1960 – 12 January 1960), died within ten hours of his birth
* [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] (1 July 1961 – [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|31 August 1997]]), first wife of [[Charles III]].
* [[Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer]] (born 20 May 1964), who married firstly [[Victoria Aitken|Victoria Lockwood]], secondly Caroline Freud (''née'' Hutton and former wife of [[Matthew Freud]]), and thirdly, [[Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer|Karen Villeneuve]] until 2024.

According to leading gossip columnist and author [[Penny Junor]] "Johnny could be violent, and [Frances] felt she and her children would be safer out of the home."<ref name="CNN-doc">{{cite web|url=https://www.insider.com/princess-diana-father-slap-her-mother-cnn-doc-2021-10|title=Princess Diana once witnessed her father 'slap' her mother during the royal's tumultuous childhood, CNN doc details|work=Insider|first=Rebecca|last=Cohen|date=8 October 2021|accessdate=9 January 2023}}</ref> Their daughter Diana also recalled "seeing my father slap my mother across the face and I was hiding behind the door and she was crying."<ref name="CNN-doc"/>