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Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964-
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Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997 -- Family.
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Boarding schools -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Boarding school students -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964-
Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964-
Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997 -- Family.
Spencer family.
Maidwell Hall (Boarding school)
Boarding schools -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Boarding schools -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Boarding school students -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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A very private school : a memoir / Charles Spencer.
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Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964-
Gallery Books, 2024.
Call #:
941
.0857092
S745v
Subjects
Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964-
Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997 -- Family.
Spencer family.
Maidwell Hall (Boarding school)
Boarding schools -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Boarding schools -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Boarding school students -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781668046388 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Description:
xxx, 272 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"At eight years of age, Charles Spenser [Diana Princess of Wales' brother] was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this courageous and beautifully written memoir, Spencer offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he experienced in his five years there as a pupil. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, the book is Spencers's atempt to come to terms with the deep emotional scars inflicted upon him. Spencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt at age eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickenss, the vicious brutality of a boys'school in the 1970s and the appaling inescapability of it all. This book cracks the code of the unpoliced regime that ran the place and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding school system. He gives vivid portraits of the teachers and other staff placed in loco parentis, revealing their casual cruelties and toxic obsessions. All these years laters, Spencer's bafflement at their motivations to inflict such violence on young children is palpable -- as is his fury that even if he had spoken up, no one would have listened."--Jacket.
Charles Spencer is the author of seven history books, including Sunday Times (London) bestsellers The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream, Blenheim: Battle for Europe (shortlisted for History Book of the Year, UK National Book Awards), and Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I. To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape was a Times (London) bestseller in 2017 and 2018. He also cohosts The Rabbit Hole Detectives podcast and has presented historical documentaries for television. He was awarded an MA in modern history from Magdalen College, Oxford University, before going on to work for the NBC News for a decade, as an on-air reporter for Today, and a presenter for the History Channel.
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Memoirs.
Autobiographies.
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