EARL SPENCER: I Was Sexually Abused At Just 11 By School Matron
kiangmalingue.comPrincess 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. In an extract from his powerful memoir published exclusively in The Mail on Sunday, Earl Spencer describes in devastating detail the sexual assaults and horrific beatings he suffered at Maidwell Hall and the lifelong damage they caused. The 59-year-old reveals how a predatory assistant matron - whom he describes as a 'voracious paedophile' - preyed on him and other young boys, grooming and then abusing them in their dormitory beds at night.
The book also details how John Porch, the 'terrifying and sadistic' headteacher of the exclusive prep school, inflicted brutal beatings, seemingly gaining sexual pleasure from the violence. 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 is unflinchingly frank about how his horrific schooldays left him scarred 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.
And he believes the emotional damage wrought by his time at the school in Northamptonshire had an effect on his first two marriages. The peer, who attended Maidwell between the ages of eight and 13, Bộ ngựa gỗ nguyên khối said he hopes his unflinching account will shine a light on 'how things too often were' in English private schools in the 1970s and Bộ Chiếu ngựa nguyên khối gỗ gõ đỏ gỗ hương bring 'closure' to fellow pupils who were abused. READ MORE: In the hard, Chiếu ngựa gỗ hương đá male environment of a boarding school - where I missed my mother terribly - I was easy prey for matron's calculated deployment of feminine warmth, says EARL SPENCER '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.'