Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer revealed he lost his virginity to a prostitute on a family vacation when he was 12 years old.
Spencer wrote in his new memoir, “A Very Private School,” that he was on a trip to Italy with his mother and stepfather when he spotted a “short-skirted sex worker standing on a corner” (via the Sun).
The 9th Earl Spencer, now 59, used his “pocket money” to pay the woman £15 — roughly $16 — to take his V-card.
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Spencer shared that the experience left him feeling “hollow and cold,” and he was not intimate with another woman until he was 17.
Elsewhere in the tell-all, he claimed to have been sexually abused by a female nurse assistant at his boarding school when he was 11 years old.
“This woman’s control over mesmerized boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth and desperate for her affection,” he reportedly wrote.
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Spencer referred to her as a “master of emotional manipulation” and claimed she would touch and French-kiss him.
“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,” he wrote.
He summed up his preteen years as a time of “casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions.”
After attending boarding school for most of his young life, Spencer headed to Eton College and later attended Magdalen College in Oxford to study history.
He then worked as a journalist and broadcaster for NBC News and the UK’s ITV Granada.
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Spencer became an earl and inherited his family’s estate, Althorp, in 1992 after his father died.
When he was 33, Spencer gave the eulogy at his sister Diana’s funeral after she died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
He has since morphed his historical and literal interests by creating walking tours for historical events that took place across the UK, and he also launched a podcast.
Spencer has been married three times and has seven children.
“A Very Private School” hits bookstores on March 12.
