Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and younger brother of the late Princess Diana, has written a memoir about his years in boarding school, 'A Very Private School.'
Charles Spencer was 42 years old when he first revealed he was sexually abused as a child. The younger brother of Princess Diana, now 59, initially made the revelation to a therapist after he 'hit rock bottom.' Seventeen years later, the 9th Earl Spencer is detailing the alleged trauma he endured in a new memoir, 'A Very Private School.' 'I was doing a 10-day course of very deep introspection and therapy,' he told Fox News Digital.
It was a brutal experience,' he claimed. 'The headmaster was a sadistic pedophile. He staffed a very small number of teachers in this place who were either … perverted or would never tell tales against him. There wasn’t really anyone to go to. ' I think my parents had no idea of the level of cruelty and perversion that was going on. They would never have sent me there.
Spencer was also plagued by loneliness. He often thought of his older sister, Diana. The Princess of Wales who died injuries she sustained in a car crash in 1997. She was 36. 'She was the closest person to me growing up,' he said. 'We had two much older sisters and a baby brother who had died. Then there was Diana and me. We were very close. And, actually, that was one of the devastations of being sent away.
’ve got a whole armory of support techniques to try and get to a better place,' he shared. According to 'Today,' Spencer hired a private investigator years ago to track down the woman in question. While she was alive at the time, he felt it would be 'too much' to confront her. The outlet noted that, under British law, there is no statute of limitation for rape and sexual assault. Today, Spencer lives about 10 miles from Maidwell Hall.
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