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Hello, newscasters.

This is a different episode, one of those ones where it's just me talking to one other person.

I've been speaking to Princess Diana's brother this week,

Charles Spencer. And in this interview, Earl Spencer reveals he and his sister suffered violent punishments at home,

and after weeks of speculation online around

Cape Middleton's health and whereabouts he tells me whether or not he thinks the

pressures on the current Princess of Wales are more dangerous or more risky than those his sister had to live through.

Here is the interview in full.

I'm just arriving at Spencer House. This is one of the poshest addresses in London.

Buckingham Palace is just across the park. And I'm here to meet Earl Spencer,

Princess Diana's brother. To talk to him not about his upbringing of privilege and luxury but to talk about what

until very recently has been his private misery about being sent to school as a young boy,

terrible abuse that took place,

and how he has been able finally to move on with his life.

Charles, at the beginning of this book,

you dedicate it to Buzz Buzz and Buzz was your mother's nickname

for you when you were a little boy before you went off to boarding school.

So what was Buzz like?

Well Buzz was a very happy, go lucky,

quite naughty, energetic scamp of a child, I guess.

Yes, now I tried to entertain as a child.

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