In a heart-wrenching tell-all published by the Mail on Sunday, the aristocrat reveals he was preyed upon by a ‘voracious paedophile’ at Maidwell Hall in the ’70s, when he was just a tender 11 years old.
Now at 59, the Earl lays bare the chilling details of being groomed and sexually assaulted in his dormitory bed by a female staff member, amidst the austere walls of the Northamptonshire school. The school, for its part, is reeling, calling the revelations ‘sobering’ and admitting such horrors were once brushed off as ‘normal.’
The Earl also accuses the then headmaster, John Porch, of deriving a twisted form of sexual pleasure from meting out ‘brutal beatings’ to the young lads. While the tormentor-in-chief, it appears, has either fled the country or met her maker. Porch himself escaped earthly judgment, passing away in 2022.
Earl Spencer’s harrowing journey from victim to survivor, and the ghastly specter of abuse cast over his and his schoolmates’ childhoods, throws a shadow over the storied halls of Maidwell, now determined to safeguard the innocence once stolen under its roof. As the owner of Althorp House, the resting place of Princess Diana, Earl Spencer’s revelations not only shock and awe but underscore a powerful tale of resilience and revelation in the face of unspeakable adversity.
The Earl’s book A Very Private School is available on Amazon.
