Princess Diana's brother says nanny would 'crack heads together' if they misbehaved

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Earl Spencer, the brother of Princess Diana, has revealed their childhood nanny would "crack our heads together" if they were naughty.

Speaking on BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, he said this punishment was a "cracking crunch" that "really hurt". He believes it showed how parents were disconnected, but he doesn't blame his mum and dad, saying it was "normal" to let the nanny handle things.It comes following the release of Earl Spencer's memoir A Very Private School last week, which Amazon describes as a "clear-eyed, first hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth".He recalled: "She used to crack our heads together, if we were both found to have done something naughty, obviously without my father's knowledge, but it really hurt. "It wasn't a tap on the wrist, it was a cracking crunch, you know, and I remember it still.""I think it emphasises again the disconnect of parents and I'm really, I'm not a critic of my parents, they did their best like 98 per cent of parents do, and I think again, it was just normal, you leave it to the nanny to deal with this."Another nanny, he claims, punished his two older sisters by "ladling laxatives down them".In his memoir, Earl Spencer talks about the sexual assaults and beatings he experienced at Maidwell Hall boarding school, which left him with lifelong "demons".He shared about being tormented by an assistant matron at his school when he was just 11 years old.

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