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Updated Monday, March 11, 2024-9:29 p.m.

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The British monarchy is a news factory.

After the information about the health of King Charles III and the secrecy about Kate Middleton's recovery from her surgery, in recent days there has been a real soap opera over the retouched photo that the Princess of Wales shared on the occasion of Mother's Day. mother in the UK.

While it is being elucidated which photo editing program William of England's wife used to retouch the image,

another name related to the British royal family has come to the fore: Charles Spencer

, brother of Lady Di.

In the retina of all English people there is still the image of Count Spencer at Diana's funeral walking behind the coffin with her nephews William and Harry and Prince Charles.

Count Spencer is back in the news because this week he releases an autobiographical book called

A Very Private School

in which he reveals some hitherto unknown stories about his traumatic childhood.

His memoirs focus above all on the time in which Charles Spencer was at the exclusive and elitist Maidwell Hall boarding school, where according to his testimony

he suffered sexual and physical abuse at the age of 11 by the center's staff,

as tabloids have reported. British such as the

Daily Mail

or

The

Sun.

One of the workers at the boarding school, a 20-year-old girl, was the one who had the biggest impact on him and the one who caused him the most suffering.

"This woman's control over the children was total, because we were hungry for feminine warmth

and desperate for her affection,"

describes the count.

"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," he adds.

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Lady Di's brother also details a specific episode of abuse.

"One night while we were kissing, she reached under my bedding and ran her fingers in circles down my stomach

until they landed on what little an 11-year-old can muster."

And he adds: "The first time she touched me there, she put my hand on her breasts and I could feel her heartbeat underneath.

Then she pulled hard on my arm and pushed my hand down,

under the elastic of her clothes. "I had no idea what to do. Finally, he grabbed my wrist and moved my hand for his pleasure."

Charles Spencer also gives details about the

brutal and "sadistic" beatings given to them by the director of the boarding school, John Porch,

and how the center worker who abused the children established a kind of competition.

"There seemed to be an unofficial hierarchy among her inmates. We learned, after talking among ourselves, that she chose a boy each quarter to share her bed."

About to turn 60, Count Spencer takes stock of his entire life and considers that what he experienced at Maidwell Hall was a trauma that he had to learn to deal with thanks to the help of professionals.

"During intensive therapy I began to address the impact that Maidwell had on me throughout my life.

I finally realized the magnitude of the damage caused.

By observing the failures of my first and second marriages, I learned early in therapy that having Being sent to boarding school at age 8 meant I understood almost nothing about how intimacy is approached in relationships. It's an almost inevitable consequence of trauma. Of course, it's easy to look for reasons why things haven't worked out. It worked but I'm sure some things died inside me between the ages of 8 and 13.

Innocence, confidence, joy: everything was trampled and diminished in that old-fashioned,

snobbish, vicious little world that English high society built and back".