Princess Diana’s brother Earl Charles Spencer has revealed that he paid a sex worker £15 to lose his virginity while on a family trip to Italy aged 12.
The 59-year-old makes the admission in a tell-all memoir about his childhood called ‘A Very Private School’, which will be released on March 14 in the UK.
He will also open up about being sexually abused as an 11-year-old boy by a young female assistant matron at Maidwell Hall boys prep school, Northampton, during the 1970s.
In a US version of the book, which The Sun has obtained, Earl Spencer writes: ‘This woman’s control over mesmerised boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth and desperate for her affection.’
Describing her as a ‘master of emotional manipulation’, he adds: ‘The effect of what she did to me was profound and immediate, awaking in me basic desires that had no place in one so young.’
Princess Diana ‘s brother Earl Spencer (pictured) has revealed that he paid a sex worker £15 to lose his virginity while on a family trip to Italy aged 12
The 59-year-old makes the admission in an memoir about his childhood called ‘A Very Private School’, which will be released on March 14 in the UK
Charles grew up with his older sister Diana, who said she had always looked after him when they were young
Earl Spencer also claims the abuse would often include French kissing and touching, while he said other boys were also victims.
But it was on a holiday to Italy with his mother and step-father that he used his pocket money to pay a sex worker £15 to help him lose his virginity.
Earl Spencer, who found the sex worker standing on a street corner, says he felt ‘hollow and cold’ afterwards and was left unable to sleep with another woman until he turned 17.
Diana’s brother described his time at school as a period of ‘casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions’.
And he revealed that his nanny would bang their heads together if they were naughty as she thought it ‘introduced fear and hurt into our pampered lives’.
Earl Spencer is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and therefore the uncle of Prince William and Prince Harry.
It has been 27 years since Princess Diana died at the age of 36, when the car she was travelling in crashed in a Paris tunnel on August 31, 1997.