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UK police said on Monday that an investigation has been launched into allegations by Princess Diana’s younger brother of sexual abuse at the boarding school he attended in the 1970s.
In a memoir released earlier this year, Charles Spencer recounted the difficulties he faced at Maidwell Hall school, including allegations of being sexually abused and beaten.
Police in Northamptonshire, central England, confirmed they had launched a criminal investigation into “allegations of non-recent sexual abuse” at the school, which Spencer attended from the age of eight to 13.
“The move comes after the Force carried out preliminary investigations into allegations of abuse said to have occurred in the 1970s at Maidwell Hall School earlier this year,” Northamptonshire Police said in a statement, adding that the investigation was in its ” start”. stages”.
In his memoir, “A Very Private School,” Spencer, now 60, said sexual abuse and beatings at school left him with “demons” for the rest of his life.
The school said after the book was released in March that it was “very disturbing” to read about the experiences of Spencer and others at the time.
“We are sorry that this was their experience. It is difficult to read about practices that, unfortunately, were sometimes considered normal and acceptable at that time,” he added.
Spencer described being molested by a matron’s assistant at school when he was 11 years old.
In the book’s preface, he wrote that it was at times “an absolutely hellish experience, this chronicle of casual cruelty, sexual assault, and other perversions of long ago.”
Godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Spencer is the uncle of Princes William and Harry, Diana’s two sons with King Charles III.
The ninth Earl Spencer won worldwide acclaim for his moving eulogy at Diana’s funeral in 1997, when his attack on the press for persecuting his sister sparked a wave of applause among the crowd watching outside Westminster Abbey.
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