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Earl Spencer has a new book out. It’s called A Very Private School, and it reveals, in intense and harrowing detail, the abuse that he suffered at boarding school. According to the book blurb, the memoir offers “a clear-eyed first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system.” But that’s not the only antiquated system that comes under scrutiny, because Spencer also w...

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