Police probe second alleged victim over claims Princess Diana’s brother was sexually abused by a matron while at boarding school

Police investigating claims that Princess Diana’s brother was sexually abused by a matron while at boarding school have spoken to a second alleged victim, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Northamptonshire Police confirmed last night that the criminal investigation into Earl Spencer’s allegations that he was abused at the age of 11 at Maidwell Hall preparatory school in the 1970s has been expanded, with another former pupil claiming he was also abused.

In his powerful memoir, A Very Private School – an extract of which was published in The Mail last Sunday – Earl Spencer, 60, told how an assistant matron, aged 19 or 20 at the time, whom he branded a ‘voracious paedophile’ , cared for him and other young boys.

The count wrote how the matron, whom he did not name, first “kissed me on the lips” before “promoting me to the second rank of her reverse harem: those she touched intimately.”

A 67-year-old woman from Stafford was arrested in June last year.

No further arrests or charges have been made.

A police spokesperson said: ‘Officers are investigating reports from two people in connection with alleged offences.’

Earl Spencer visited Maidwell between the ages of eight and thirteen.

Nottinghamshire Police have confirmed that the criminal investigation into the earl’s allegations that he was abused at Maidwell Hall prep school in the 1970s has expanded.

He said the alleged abuse and the emotional turmoil it caused led to him self-harming and wanting “full sex from too early an age”, losing his virginity to a prostitute in Italy at the age of 12.

He wrote: ‘I have often witnessed deep pain, still flickering in the eyes of my Maidwell contemporaries.’

Northamptonshire Police have encouraged ‘anyone who has been a victim of abuse’ to contact them and stressed that people who report sexual abuse have the legal right to lifelong anonymity.