In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir 'A Very Private School,' Spencer opens up about enduring abuse as a young boy at the elite Maidwell HallErin Hill is the Senior Editor, Royals at PEOPLE. She has reported on Royals for the brand since 2015. Erin previously worked at PARADE Magazine and The Knot.Michelle Tauber is an Executive Editorial Director at PEOPLE, overseeing Lifestyle , Style & Beauty, Royals, Weddings and Politics.
I felt exhausted and sick. I knew that, however inconceivable the prospect seemed, my father was on the point of abandoning me. My sister Diana had countered her first-day despair on reaching boarding school with the heroic challenge: “If you loved me, you wouldn’t leave me here.” But she had been a girl of 10 and I was a boy of eight, and I lacked the words or the maturity to express the shocked sense of betrayal that was chewing at me from within.
She sat on the side of my bed. She was smiley, kind and chatty. I found it exciting to have such an easy interchange with a member of staff. She talked about things that mattered to me. In the hard, male environment of this traditional boys’ boarding school, where I missed my mother terribly, this calculated deployment of feminine warmth couldn’t fail to entrance, beguile and ensnare me . . .
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