Charles Spencer Details Brutal Boarding School Abuse & Life with Princess Diana

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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He's known to the world for his bestselling historical non-fiction and his familial tie to Princess Diana, but Earl Charles Spencer is now revealing a far more side of his life. In his new memoir, "A Very Private School," Spencer recounts the years of brutal abuse and culture of cruelty he encountered while growing up in boarding school -- drawing on his memories as well as letters and diaries from his childhood. Earl Spencer explains why he believed he needed to write this book despite having to relive the emotional trauma, what his relationship was like with his older sister, Princess Diana, growing up, and how he believes the abusers who worked at his school should be held accountable. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.0	Welcome to the Untold Story podcast, everyone.
0:44.5	I'm Martha McCallum.
0:46.6	It's great to have you with us today. And I'm really pleased to be joined by an excellent author and historian who joins us to speak
0:54.1	about his new, very personal story.
0:58.1	Charles Spencer is the author, and the book is called A Very Private School, a Memoir.
1:06.7	Charles Spencer, I guess you go by Charles.
1:08.8	Is it all right if I call you Charles?
1:10.2	I know you're Earl Spencer as well.
1:12.9	All right.
1:13.7	Please keep it informal.
1:15.7	All right, Charles.
1:16.4	Well, thank you very much for being here.
1:18.4	And of course, you know, for the few viewers who may not know that you're also the younger brother of Princess Diana.
1:31.7	That, of course, is a large part of your family story as well.
1:34.7	So I just wanted to mention that at the top.
1:42.7	You know, I've often thought having studied the family and these stories for a long time and covered them here for the last 20 years or so with
1:45.3	regard to your larger family and the royal family, with which your family has intersected for
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