Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's younger sibling, has disclosed experiencing childhood sexual abuse. The 59-year-old has elucidated on the sexual assaults and physical abuse he endured at the hands of a female staff member during his boarding school years at Maidwell Hall. In his memoir, he recounts how, at the age of eleven, an assistant matron subjected him to abuse, which caused him such trauma that he engaged in self-harm in fear that she would withdraw from the school.