Posted on 03/09/2024 6:21:13 PM PST by RandFan
Earl Spencer, the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, said he was sexually abused as a child at boarding school.
In an extract from his memoir, published in the Mail on Sunday, Earl Spencer said he was targeted by a female member of staff at Maidwell Hall, Northamptonshire in the 1970s.
Now 59, he alleges the abuse began when he was just 11 years old.
Maidwell Hall said it was "sobering" to learn of Earl Spencer's experiences.
The school said allegations of sexual abuse had been referred to a "local authority designated officer".
Earl Spencer attended Maidwell Hall between the ages of eight and 13.
In his new book A Very Private School, he alleges that a female staff member, whom he described as a "voracious paedophile", groomed and abused him and other young boys in their dormitory beds at night.
Earl Spencer said he had established that the employee now either lives abroad or is dead, the Mail reports.
He also alleged the school's then headmaster, John Porch, inflicted "brutal beatings" and he believed the teacher gained "sexual pleasure from the violence". Mr Porch died in January 2022, according to an obituary in his old college newsletter.
Earl Spencer said reliving his time at Maidwell had been an "absolutely hellish experience".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
So this is Harry’s RED HAIRED uncle. All that crap about Harry being illegitimate because he’s a red head and they think his mother rallied with some red headed guy seems a little silly, doesn’t it? Harry’s a bit of a buffoon, but I would be too if I had to live my life under a microscope, including having my mother killed in such a public way.
All his wealth and he doesn’t hire an investigator to confirm dead or alive?
seeing some people question the sentences used by Earl Spencer written up like some kind of romance novel..albeit with a sinister twist.
It is odd..such as...
“’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,’ he writes. ‘The first time she touched me there, she placed my hand on her breasts, and I could feel her pounding heart beneath.’”
Diana sisters red haired too?
Diana sisters red haired too? All of her siblings are red heads.
I hit it a couple of years back. Time flies faster and faster these days.
seems the Great Earl Spencer is a bit of a Cad.
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/28/world/diana-s-brother-learns-that-the-tabloids-bite-back.html
“True, the tabloids have a great deal of ammunition in their campaign to declare Earl Spencer Public Enemy No. 1. In a statement to the court this week, his wife said that he admitted to sleeping with ‘’10 or 12 women’’ while she was in a clinic receiving treatment for alcoholism and eating disorders. She also said that he chose a moment when he was reclining in the bath to tell her he wanted a divorce, he did not love her and she was ‘’no good as a wife.’’
Furthermore, it was apparently not clever of the Earl to ditch the woman for whom he left his wife. The spurned mistress, Chantal Collopy — a South African whose now-former husband sued the Earl for the loss of his wife’s love and affection — has joined forces with Lady Spencer. The two women have compared notes and declared the Earl to be an out-and-out rat with uncannily consistent behavior patterns.”
Hasn’t he be married at least 4 times?
he is not the most stable guy.
This is interesting from someone who went to the same school
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Looking forward to reading this to see if I get any mentions.
Maidwell Hall was an academically unremarkable school for the sons of the landed gentry. The headmaster enjoyed thrashing bare buttocks on the slightest pretext, but I enjoyed the sports and the setting was beautiful.
CS wasn’t a sporty kid. That’s why his memories are probably more focused on the loneliness and emotional neglect. His parents also divorced a few years before he went to Maidwell which didn’t help.
some sad but interesting replies to the old tweet from Earl Spencer
https://twitter.com/cspencer1508/status/1569436208677408769
I cant help thinking that boarding schools have a potential to be pretty harmful even if you are not abused
I feel abused already...
Future training ?
It was Churchill himself who said the Royal Navy of old was held together by “Rum, buggery and the lash”.
You’re just wishing!
Dad's what did that sort of thing back then?
Apostrophes have consequences!
Regards,
Thank you! (How hard is it, really?)
Oh good. Enter all the FR pervs who wish it happened to them.
Hired prostitutes for their aristocratic sons when a minor
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