Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer says he lost his virginity to sex worker aged 12 while on holiday

PRINCESS Diana’s brother says he lost his virginity to a sex worker while on a family trip aged 12.

Earl Charles Spencer, 59, makes the admission in his upcoming childhood memoir A Very Private School.

He links the episode to sex abuse he suffered aged 11 at the hands of a young female assistant matron at Maidwell Hall boys prep school, Northants, during the 1970s.

In the US edition of the book, exclusively obtained by The Sun, he writes: “This woman’s control over mesmerised boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth and desperate for her affection.”

Calling her a “master of emotional manipulation”, he goes on: “The effect of what she did to me was profound and immediate, awaking in me basic desires that had no place in one so young.”

He claims the abuse involved French kissing and touching. Other boys were also targeted, he said.

Then, on a trip to Italy with his mother and step-father, he spotted a short-skirted sex worker standing on a corner and used his pocket money to pay her about £15 for sex.

He said it left him feeling “hollow and cold” and he did not sleep with another woman until he was 17.

Earl Spencer described his years at the school as a time of “casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions”.

He also revealed his and his sister’s nanny would bang their heads together if they were naughty, saying it “introduced fear and hurt into our pampered lives”.