DIANA'S BROTHER REVEALED HOW HE WAS SEXUALLY ABUSED IN BOARDING SCHOOL. (PHOTO).
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How I was sexually abused at just 11 by school matron, Diana's brother EARL SPENCER reveals in devastating memoir as he says trauma left life-long toll
Princess 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.
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, said he hopes his unflinching account will shine a light on 'how things too often were' in English private schools in the 1970s and bring 'closure' to fellow pupils who were abused.
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