Princess Diana’s brother reveals he lost virginity to sex worker at age 12 on family vacation

Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer revealed he lost his virginity to sex worker at age 12.Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock

Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer revealed he lost his virginity to a prostitute on a family vacation when he was 12 years old.

Spencer wrote in his new memoir, “A Very Private School,” that he was on a trip to Italy with his mother and stepfather when he spotted a “short-skirted sex worker standing on a corner” (via the Sun).

The 9th Earl Spencer, now 59, used his “pocket money” to pay the woman £15 — roughly $16 — to take his V-card.

Spencer wrote about the experience in his new memoir, “A Very Private School.” Getty Images He shared how he was on a trip to Italy when he paid a prostitute. Getty Images

Spencer shared that the experience left him feeling “hollow and cold,” and he was not intimate with another woman until he was 17.

Elsewhere in the tell-all, he claimed to have been sexually abused by a female nurse assistant at his boarding school when he was 11 years old.

“This woman’s control over mesmerized boys was total, for we were starved of feminine warmth and desperate for her affection,” he reportedly wrote.

Spencer felt “hollow and cold” after the encounter. Paul Fievez/Daily Mail/Shutterstock He was unable to have relations with another woman until he was 17. Getty Images

Spencer referred to her as a “master of emotional manipulation” and claimed she would touch and French-kiss him.

“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 wrote.

He summed up his preteen years as a time of “casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions.”

Spencer also claimed he was sexually abused by a female nurse assistant at his boarding school when he was 11. A Very Private School He reflected on that time period as a time of “casual cruelty, sexual assault and other perversions.” Getty Images

After attending boarding school for most of his young life, Spencer headed to Eton College and later attended Magdalen College in Oxford to study history.

He then worked as a journalist and broadcaster for NBC News and the UK’s ITV Granada.

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Spencer became an earl and inherited his family’s estate, Althorp, in 1992 after his father died.

When he was 33, Spencer gave the eulogy at his sister Diana’s funeral after she died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

The British journalist was 20 when Princess Diana married King Charles. Keith Butcher/Shutterstock He has since inherited Althorp Estate after their father died. Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images Spencer gave a eulogy for Diana at her funeral in 1997. PA Images via Getty Images

He has since morphed his historical and literal interests by creating walking tours for historical events that took place across the UK, and he also launched a podcast.

Spencer has been married three times and has seven children.

“A Very Private School” hits bookstores on March 12.