Charles Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, is divorcing his wife Karen Spencer.
The 9th Earl Spencer (60 years old) Daily Mail Saturday.
“It’s very sad,” Charles said.
“I just want to dedicate myself to all my children and grandchildren and wish Karen all the best for the future,” he added.
According to the Daily Mail, one of the reasons for Charles and Karen, 52, divorcing is due to “stress” caused by Charles writing about the physical and sexual abuse he experienced at boarding school in his memoir, “A Very Private School.”
Charles and Karen have been married since June 2011.
Their wedding took place at Althorp House in Great Barrington, England, two months after Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding.
They have a 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte Diana.
Karen has two daughters from her previous marriage to Hollywood producer Mark Gordon, while Charles has six children from his first two marriages to Victoria Lockwood and Caroline Floyd.
In his memoir, published in March, Charles revealed that he was sexually abused as a child while attending Maidwell Hall, an elite British boarding school.
He said he first confided this in his therapist.
“I whispered to him that I had been sexually abused by an adult as a child. I remember him looking so shocked. He had heard it all,” Charles wrote.
“Then he took me aside and said, ‘This is a very serious matter.'”
The father of seven continued, “I had kids at the time and all of a sudden it hit me: what if one of my kids, a boy or a girl, had this happen to them when they were 11? My blood boiled and I began to feel the devastation of what had happened to me.”
Charles claimed his parents “had no idea the level of cruelty and perversion he experienced at school.”
“They would never have sent me there,” he said. “I think they probably had this old-fashioned idea that corporal punishment and beatings were just part of school. But it was like a daily ritual. There were 72 boys and at least six of them were beaten every day. The time flew by. I don’t think the parents knew about it.”
In his memoir, Charles also talks about his sister, who died at age 36 after being injured in a car accident in 1997.
“She was the closest person to me growing up,” he said. “We had two older sisters and a little brother who passed away. And then Diana and I. We were very close.”
“That was actually part of the shock of being sent so far away,” he added. “She was sent a year before me, but for the first few years of my life, we went everywhere together.”
