On March 16, the memoirs of Charles Spencer, Lady Di's younger brother, will be published.
Entitled
A Very Private School,
the work focuses mainly on his past and returns to a specific period of his life: his traumatic experience while he was educated at Maidwell Hall, a prestigious boarding school in Great Britain.
Indeed, he reveals that he was sexually assaulted by a woman who was then a school assistant, when he was only 11 years old.
During an interview for
Today
, this Friday March 8, he returned to this terrible ordeal.
“We were locked up.
We were like prisoners.
We were prey to the worst instincts of people with very bad intentions,” he confided.
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Shocking revelations which did not fail to provoke a reaction from his former establishment.
Indeed, he responded by way of a press release to
Today
assuring that he had contacted the local authorities to investigate possible crimes perpetrated within the pension.
At the same time, he also urged former student victims to come forward to the school.
Speaking to journalist Cynthia McFadden, Charles Spenser said he first spoke about the abuse when he was 42, during a session with his therapist.
"He said to me, 'Whisper to me something you've never told anyone.'
And I replied: 'I was sexually assaulted by a woman when I was a child,'” recalled the little brother of the former Princess of Wales.
sex worker
Charles Spencer thus experienced, during his adolescence, a somewhat tormented sexuality.
In his memoirs, he reveals in particular that he lost his virginity at the age of 12 with a prostitute, during a stay in Italy, as relayed this time by the
Daily Mail
.
The 9th Earl Spencer explains that he was on holiday with his mother, Frances Burke-Roche, and his stepfather Peter Shand Kydd.
The tabloid reports that this first sexual encounter with a sex worker cost him only 15 pounds, taken from his pocket money.
After which, Charles Spencer would no longer have physical contact with a woman until he was 17.
The first shattering revelations which suggest a continuation of the work full of twists and turns.