Princess Diana‘s brother Earl Charles Spencer has revealed that he paid a sex worker £15 to lose his virginity while on a family trip to Italy aged 12.
The 59-year-old makes the admission in a tell-all memoir about his childhood called ‘A Very Private School’, which will be released on March 14 in the UK.
He Was Sexually Abused
He will also open up about being sexually abused as an 11-year-old boy by a young female assistant matron at Maidwell Hall boys prep school, Northampton, during the 1970s.
In a US version of the book, which was obtained, Earl Spencer writes: ‘This woman’s control over mesmerised boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth and desperate for her affection.’
Describing her as a ‘master of emotional manipulation’, he adds: ‘The effect of what she did to me was profound and immediate, awaking in me basic desires that had no place in one so young.’
Earl Spencer also claims the abuse would often include French kissing and touching, while he said other boys were also victims.
But it was on a holiday to Italy with his mother and step-father that he used his pocket money to pay a sex worker £15 to help him lose his virginity.
He Became Cold Afterwards
Earl Spencer, who found the sex worker standing on a street corner, says he felt ‘hollow and cold’ afterwards and was left unable to sleep with another woman until he turned 17.
More Perversions He Suffered at School
Diana’s brother described his time at school as a period of ‘casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions’.
And he revealed that his nanny would bang his and Diana’s heads together if they were naughty as she thought it ‘introduced fear and hurt into our pampered lives’.
Meet Earl Spencer
Earl Spencer is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and therefore the uncle of Prince William and Prince Harry.
The Death of Princess Diana
It has been 27 years since Princess Diana died at the age of 36, when the car she was travelling in crashed in a Paris tunnel on August 31, 1997.
As the heir to the Earl Spencer title, Princess Diana’s younger brother spent his childhood on the sprawling family estate he would one day inherit.
