Princess Diana's brother says he lost virginity to a sex worker on holiday aged 12
Charles Spencer is releasing a new memoir
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Princess Diana’s brother has said he lost his virginity to a sex worker on holiday aged 12.
Earl Charles Spencer, 59, made claims in his new memoir, A Very Private School, that he paid a sex worker around £15 while he was on vacation in Italy.
In his memoir, Diana’s brother described his experience with the sex worker leaving him feeling “hollow and cold.”
Spencer related the experience with sexual abuse he suffered some months before by a female assistant matron at his school.
Charles Spencer is releasing a new memoir
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The Earl attended Maidwell Hall boys prep school in Northamptonshire during the 1970s where he claims to have experienced “casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions.”
In the US edition of his book, as reported by The Sun, Spencer describes the assault at age 11.
He says: “This woman’s control over mesmerised boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth and desperate for her affection.”
He also goes on to explain that other boys were also targeted in the assault and that the abuse involved kissing and touching.
Spencer says: “The effect of what she did to me was profound and immediate, awaking in me basic desires that had no place in one so young.”
Charles Spencer was Princess Diana's only brother
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The Earl also goes on to describe how he and Diana’s nanny would “bang their heads together” if they were naughty introducing “fear and hurt into their pampered lives.”
Princess Diana’s only brother was sent to boarding school at eight-years-old.
His memoir is described as a “clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system.”
The book also includes extracts from his own letters and diary entries during his time at boarding school.
Charles Spencer went to boarding school at eight-years old
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The Charles Spencer website describes the book as “drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letter and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all.”
Spencer continued his education at Eton College and then went to Magdalen College, Oxford to obtain a degree in modern history.
He then began his career as a journalist and television reporter with NBC News where he worked between 1986 and 1995.
The Earl has already published eight books and also hosts the podcast, The Rabbit Hole Detectives.
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Charles Spencer was a journalist and a television reporter
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A number of these books use Spencer’s historical knowledge by analysing British history including the Sunday Times bestsellers Blenheim: Battle for Europe and Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier.
In 2011, Spencer married Karen Anne Spencer after divorcing his first wife, Victoria Aitken in 1997 and his second wife, Caroline Freud in 2007.
From these three marriages the Earl has seven children.
Spencer’s memoir has been described as “moving and beautifully written” and “courageous” as the Earl reveals details about the private school system.