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Charles Spencer shared a photo of him and his sister Princess Diana when they were schoolboys.
He took to Instagram to post the image, which showed the pair dressed in their primary school uniforms, aged around four (Charles) and seven (Diana).
The two wear matching red blazers, while Diana wears a straw boater and Charles wears a cap.
He wears gray shorts while she wears a skirt of the same color and they both wear gray socks.
Charles, 59, captioned the post: “My first day of school, September 1968: my father took this photo of me and my sister Diana, just before driving us to Silfield, a very beautiful primary school in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. .
Earl Charles Spencer and his sister Lady Diana (later Diana, Princess of Wales) photographed in their school uniforms in 1968
“The headmistress was Miss Jean Lowe, a warm and caring lady who loved her boys and girls.
“I stayed there until 1972, when I moved to the place that I call – in my memoirs – a very private school.”
It comes after Charles revealed that Princess Diana told her father “if you loved me, you wouldn’t leave me here” when she was sent to boarding school.
Earl Spencer made the comments during a recent Sunday appearance with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One.
He said “it was incredibly powerful” to see Diana tell their father how she felt about going to boarding school and that “I was so proud of her for saying that”.
Charles also reiterated his own position on boarding schools, telling Ms Kuenssberg: “Personally, any child under the age of 13, I don’t think they should be expelled. They can’t understand what’s happening.
Earl Spencer recently published his memoir, A Very Private School, revealing horrific details of the physical and sexual abuse he suffered as a child, while being educated at Maidwell Hall boarding school in Northamptonshire in the 1970s.
Diana was sent to Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk, at the age of nine after her mother, Frances Roche, left her father John for wallpaper millionaire Peter Shand-Kydd.
Earl Charles Spencer during an interview with Laura Kuenssberg for the BBC’s Sunday Morning television program during which he spoke about his school days
The boarding school opened as an independent girls’ school in 1946, before being forced to close due to “unprecedented financial challenges” in April last year.
Diana was sent to prep school in 1970, three years after her parents separated, and stayed at Riddlesworth Hall, between Thetford and Diss in Norfolk, between the ages of nine and 12.
Young Diana initially told her father she didn’t want to go to boarding school, but instead he took a photo of his daughter sitting on a trunk in her pleated skirt and red cardigan school uniform.
Although initially unhappy, she later settled into school and became a popular student, while dealing with the consequences of her family’s breakup.
She left Riddlesworth Hall in 1973 and went to West Heath Girl’s School in Sevenoaks the following year.