Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, reveals devastating family secret
nypost.comThe younger brother of Princess Diana, now 59, initially made the revelation to a therapist after he “hit rock bottom.” Seventeen years later, the 9th Earl Spencer is detailing the alleged trauma he endured in a new memoir, “A Very Private School.”“I was doing a 10-day course of very deep introspection and therapy,” he told Fox News Digital. “My therapist said to each of us, ‘Whisper to me one secret you’d never told anyone.’ I whispered to him that I was sexually abused as a child by an adult.
And I remember him looking so shocked, and he had heard it all. Afterward, he took me aside and said, ‘This is very serious stuff.’”“By that stage, I had children,” the father of seven shared. “I suddenly put it into context.
Wat if one of my children of either gender had been subjected to this as an 11-year-old? It made my blood boil. I then started to allow myself to feel the full devastation of what had happened to me.”At age 8, Spencer was enrolled at Maidwell Hall, an elite English boarding school.
The historian said meeting with other former pupils compelled him to revisit painful memories of the past.“As I listened to their stories, I was appalled,” he recalled. “There was one [former student] I met with after not seeing him for 40 years.
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