Earl Spencer revelations

[LadyMuckonpancakes]

Just caught something about this online. It sounds horrific.

[Redglitter]

A bit more info or a link would be helpful

[flatwhiteinabucket]

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/princess-dianas-brother-charles-spencer-170217185.html

[Gingerkittykat]

It's really sad that he suffered abuse at boarding school. I hope the school can be properly investigated and the victims given support.

[Brightandbubly]

Truly shocking hate the concept of boarding school and it will still go on , predators will always be attracted to where there is distance between the child and the parent

[BigMandsTattooPortfolio]

I have just read the article and it is heartbreaking. I feel so sad for that 8 year old little boy sent away because, as he says in the article his father was disappointed in him. The Spencer children had a cold, unloving childhood it seems.

Db was sent to boarding school in the 70s and had a very similar experience to Earl Spencer. The fact is that those with an unhealthy interest in children flock to these places. I was sent at 10 and by the time I left 3 years later I had childhood depression and anxiety. We had a school doctor, an old man who always wanted to pull down your pants, no matter what was wrong with you. It leaves scars - deep ones.

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

That’s horrific. Genuinely feel sick reading about that, poor man. Those poor children.

[Vespanest]

its heartbreaking and not surprising at the same time

[LadyMuckonpancakes]

I’m wondering why he has chosen now to reveal all this. It’s truly awful to read.

[LiterallyOnFire]

I think he's spoken about this before.

[RosesAndHellebores]

One wonders why he couldn't tell his papa.

[BobbyBookcase]

The account I read was dreadful. Poor man. I thought the school's response was quite poor - they seemed to dismiss it as happening everywhere in those days.

[Hadalifeonce]

DH was at boarding school, although there was at least one predatory master, older boys also committed sexual assault on the younger boys

[Bangbangcauliflower101]

How would anyone apologise though? The school is run by different people and the abusers are all dead.
I love that he uses his posh platform to expose boarding school for the sick child neglect factory that it is.

[MattDamon]

@Hadalifeonce

DH was at boarding school, although there was at least one predatory master, older boys also committed sexual assault on the younger boys

I was going to post the same thing. Friend was sexually abused from the time he arrived (8, I think?) and it was always the older boys. He said it was expected. It's a big name school, too.

It really messed him up. He's 40 now and has never been able to have a serious relationship as an adult.

[bombastix]

Par for the course in some of these places. Private schools have always had predatory people in them; and the scrutiny of who worked in them was non existent. Schools did know; but with reputations to protect and often a complicit leadership these children had little chance. Boarding schools are brutal places even now.

[GrazingSheep]

In 2020 a former teacher in Eton was jailed for the sexual abuse of children in the school. It’s horrifying.

[bombastix]

Well you can't get a better environment really; total control, away from home, strict discipline required and deference to teachers. A paedophiles dream; and happens frequently in places where children are subject to adult authority and sleep away from family. Eton or the local boys home.

[AliceOlive]

He wants the publicity,

What a fucked thing to say about someone who experienced sexual assault as a child.

[eise]

@bombastix

Par for the course in some of these places. Private schools have always had predatory people in them; and the scrutiny of who worked in them was non existent. Schools did know; but with reputations to protect and often a complicit leadership these children had little chance. Boarding schools are brutal places even now.

I am sure it's everywhere and not only private schools.

[Mummyoflittledragon]

Abuse by a woman. That is rather unusual and just as awful as if it had been a man.

[Teddleshon]

This was well known about Maidwell, really shocking abuse went on there in the 60s /70s. I know lots of people locally who sent their children there aged 7/8 in recent years. I once went to a drinks party which had a presentation by the head and he kept wanging on about how the school was like a family. Well my child already has a family thanks.

[Maireas]

Wants tte publicity? Really?
He could get publicity any day of the week just by mentioning Diana.
This is about his abuse as a child, and no-one would revisit and share details of that "for publicity".

[Betternowthough]

@bombastix

Par for the course in some of these places. Private schools have always had predatory people in them; and the scrutiny of who worked in them was non existent. Schools did know; but with reputations to protect and often a complicit leadership these children had little chance. Boarding schools are brutal places even now.

This is so true, as parents who sent their DS to boarding school it's so difficult to read Charles Spencer"s story today. They are toxic places that attract the worst of humanity. My son's school receives lots of negativity on here but none of the comments even scratch the surface. It's very brave of him to speak now, these places should not exist today.

[Uricon2]

Appalled by what I've read and very, very sorry for him and all the other boys abused by this predator (because that's what she was) I hope others feel able to come forward and get some sort of justice/closure and if still alive (which she may well be) she is now very uneasy indeed.