‘DEEP PAIN’ Diana’s brother Earl Spencer reveals he was sexually abused at school aged 11 as he opens up on trauma in new memoir
PRINCESS Diana’s brother Earl Spencer has revealed he was sexually abused when he was an 11-year-old schoolboy, as he opens up about the trauma in a new memoir.Earl Spencer, centre, between Prince Harry and Prince William along with Prince Charles, right and Prince Philip during Diana's funeralnow 59, tells how an assistant matron, who he dubs a “voracious paedophile”, preyed upon him and other boys by grooming them and going on to abuse the in their dormitory beds at night.
In his book A Very Private School he says he attended from 1972 and tells how the boys were told to refer to the female staff as “Please” rather than “Miss”.When he was 11, he was moved to one of a pair of dormitories in the school’s attics, known as The Uppers, which were overseen by an assistant matron, aged 19 or 20.
He writes: “While we kissed, one night, she reached under my bedclothes, trailing her fingers in teasing, looping circles down my stomach until alighting on the little that an 11-year-old boy can muster. Earl Spencer continues: “Her control over mesmerised boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth, and desperate for attention and affection.”Affected by the turmoil caused by the abuse, Earl Spencer started to self-harm when the matron suggested she might leave the school to work in the
The Earl adds that he established the assistant matron, would now be in her late 60s, married at least twice but he suspects that she is now either dead or living abroad. One of the Earl’s contemporaries at the school recalled during a caning Porch “reached down with his hand to cup the boy's scrotum”.
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