Princess Diana’s brother Earl Charles Spencer has revealed he paid a sex worker £15 to lose her virginity during a family trip to Italy when she was 12.
The 59-year-old admits as much in a tell-all memoir about his childhood, titled “A Very Private School,” which will be published on March 14 in the UK.
He will also speak openly about being sexually abused as a boy of 11 by a young matronly assistant at Maidwell Hall Boys’ Preparatory School, Northampton, during the 1970s.
In an American version of the book, which Sun As obtained, Earl Spencer writes: “This woman’s control over the hypnotized children was total, for we were hungry for 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, awakening basic desires in me that had no place in someone so young.”
Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer (pictured) revealed he paid a sex worker £15 to lose her virginity during a family trip to Italy when she was 12.
Princess Diana with her brother Earl Spencer in Windsor when the brothers were younger
The 59-year-old admits as much in a memoir about his childhood titled ‘A Very Private School’, which will be published on March 14 in the UK.
Charles grew up with his older sister Diana, who said she had always looked out for him when they were young.
Earl Spencer also claims that the abuse often included French kissing and touching, while he said other children were also victims.
But it was during a holiday in Italy with his mother and stepfather that he used his pocket money to pay a sex worker £15 to help him lose his virginity.
Earl Spencer, who found the sex worker standing on a corner, says he felt “empty and cold” afterwards and was unable to sleep with another woman until he was 17.
Diana’s brother described her time at school as a period of “casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions.”
And he revealed that their nanny would hit them on the head if they misbehaved, as she thought it “introduced fear and pain into our pampered lives.”
Earl Spencer is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and therefore uncle of Prince William and Prince Harry.
Charles is pictured with his father, the 8th Earl Spencer, in the estate’s cellars.
Charles attended Eton College, during which time his sister Diana married Prince Charles when she was 20 (Charles pictured at Eton)
He then studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, but admitted he had devoted too little time to his degree (pictured on the first day of his final exams at Oxford).
The photo shows Charles meeting the late Queen and Queen Mother at the Eton Boys’ Tea Party in 1978.
It has been 27 years since Princess Diana died at the age of 36, when the car she was traveling in crashed in a Paris tunnel on August 31, 1997.
As heir to the title of Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s younger brother spent his childhood on the extensive family estate he would one day inherit.
But life in Althorp was not as happy as it seems. Diana said she always saw her mother crying, while her brother described the house as a “nightmare place.”
Charles inherited his father’s title when he was just 27, but instead of aristocratic comfort, his adult life brought similar tumult, including two failed marriages, a broken engagement, and the tragic death of his older sister.
Leaving for boarding school at the age of eight, Charles endured six months of sleepless nights before heading to Maidwell Hall.
Along with the latest allegations about his time at Maidwell Hall, he previously told TES magazine: “I said I wanted to go to a public school because it must be preferable to being 13 blocks away in a pretty cold and unpleasant place.”
Instead of going to public school, she headed to Eton College, during which time Diana married Prince Charles when she was 20 years old.
After school he gained a place at Magdalen College, Oxford to study modern history, but admitted he devoted very little time to his degree.
“I actually feel very guilty about Oxford,” he told The Times.
‘I really was the conventional old Etonian: quite efficient at exams, got in and then did very little work. And then right at the end, I had to do a lot to make sure I got it right.”
While studying at university, he was invited to join the infamous Bullingdon Club alongside former Prime Ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson, a school friend with whom the Earl is still close, but declined the offer.
His former roommate, Andrew MacDonald, told Maclean’s that, thanks to a sense of “social validity” and “deep self-confidence,” Charles “didn’t want to associate with those people.”
He continued to work as a journalist and broadcaster, spending ten years at the American television network NBC News as an on-air correspondent and writing scripts for his articles on the Today show.
Charles was photographed with Diana, Prince Charles and his sisters Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes for his 21st birthday.
Earl Spencer and his older sister Diana talked about their unhappy childhood.
Earl Spencer was photographed addressing journalists outside his home in Cape Town after Diana’s death.
He walked behind the carriage carrying Diana’s coffin alongside Prince Philip, Prince William, Prince Harry and Prince Charles.
Charles Spencer married his third wife, Karen Gordon, in 2011 (pictured together in 2017)
He has reviewed books for the Mail on Sunday and the Financial Times and has written his own history books, including Althorp: The Story of an English House.
Despite not joining the club, he became friends with Bullingdon member and former Eton pupil Darius Guppy, who was arrested in 1993 for orchestrating a fake jewel heist while working as a gem dealer, which led to Lloyd’s of London to pay £1.8 million.
The conman had been best man at Earl Spencer’s wedding to Victoria Lockwood in 1989, but their friendship was derailed when Darius accused Charles of seducing his wife Patricia while he was in prison.
The disagreement culminated in a fight in the manicured gardens of Darius’ mansion, leaving Charles with two black eyes, a broken cheekbone, and a concussion.
“I miss all the friends I don’t see anymore, but there are things friends just don’t do,” Darius told The Telegraph.
‘He crossed the line. But whatever happens between us, the secrets that all my friends shared will go to the grave with me.