In an extract from his powerful memoir published exclusively in The Mail on Sunday, Earl Spencer describes in devastating detail the sexual assaults and beatings he suffered at Maidwell Hall.
Read the full extract from Earl Spencer's memoirPrincess Diana's brother Earl Spencer has revealed that he was sexually abused at the age of 11 by a female member of staff at his boarding school.
The torment Earl Spencer endured during his five years at Maidwell Hall led to him deliberately making himself sick – a shocking precursor to Diana's later struggles with bulimia.Earl Spencer with Princess Diana. The torment he endured during his five years at Maidwell Hall led to him deliberately making himself sick – a shocking precursor to Diana's later struggles with bulimia.
'I've frequently witnessed deep pain, still flickering in the eyes of my Maidwell contemporaries,' he writes. 'Many of us left Maidwell with demons sewn into the seams of our souls.' EXCLUSIVEREAD MORE: The beatings were brutal and sadistic... many of us left school with demons sewn into the seams of our souls, says EARL SPENCER Advertisement Aged 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 who was aged 19 or 20. The woman, whom he does not name, groomed boys by bringing them illicit snacks at night before going on to sexually abuse them.
Earl Spencer writes: 'Her control over mesmerised boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth, and desperate for attention and affection.' Earl Spencer has established that the assistant matron, who would now be in her late 60s, married at least twice but he suspects she now either lives abroad or is dead.
Recalling an 'unprovoked attack' on him by Maude when he was aged ten or 11, Earl Spencer writes: 'He sat down next to me, threw me over his knees and beat me hard with one of my cricket boots, its metal spikes puncturing the skin on my bottom in a dozen places.'
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