Count
Charles Spencer
, brother of the late Princess Diana, revealed that he was
sexually abused by a woman
during his stay at an
elite educational boarding school in his childhood
, in a memoir serialized this Sunday by 'The Mail on Sunday'.
In the volume he also reveals that he lost his virginity to a prostitute at the age of 12 in Italy as a result of what he experienced at Maidwell Hall school (central England), which he attended from the ages of 8 to 13, as well as other
physical abuse .
suffered by him and his classmates
at the hands of the director and some teachers.
According to the extracts collected by the newspaper, Count Spencer, 59, was abused by one of the matrons of his school residence, in her 20s, who, he explains, bribed the children with sweets at night and caressed them. , to
have sex with a new chosen one every quarter
.
Deprived of maternal love, the minors craved the attention of this responsible person, to the point that
Carlos even harmed himself
when she threatened to leave, and everyone celebrated when she finally stayed, according to his story.
Count Spencer, maternal uncle of Princes William - heir to the British throne - and Harry, says that he only realized that the woman was a
pedophile
when she underwent psychological treatment years later, and he assures that these traumatic experiences damaged his subsequent relationships.
In the book, titled in English 'A Very Private School', the aristocrat also details how the school's director, the "terrifying and sadistic" John Porch, inflicted
brutal beatings
with which he apparently obtained sexual pleasure.
Charles Spencer, Diana's brother.
The violent Latin teacher, Henry Maude, also hit him with his cricket boots and
knocked another boy unconscious
, while selecting several of them for naked swimming sessions with which he became aroused.
Reliving the Maidwell Hall regime of "cruelty" and "sexual assault" to write his book was an "absolutely hellish experience", says the earl, who later attended Eton boarding school, which was also attended by his nephews and numerous members of the British upper class, including several prime ministers.
Carlos says that by revealing abuse - common in decades past in the UK's exclusive boarding schools - he wants to shed light on "how things were too often" in private schools in the 1970s and bring some comfort to the companions who suffered like him
With information from EFE
D.D.