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 last night confirmed its criminal probe into Earl Spencer's allegations that he was molested, aged just 11, at Maidwell Hall preparatory school in the 1970s has widened, with another former pupil claiming to have also been abused. In his powerful memoir, A Very Private School – an extract of which was published by The Mail on Sunday last March – Earl Spencer, 60, told how an assistant matron, aged 19 or 20 at the time, whom he branded a 'voracious paedophile', groomed him and other young boys. Police investigating claims that Earl Spencer was sexually abused at school have spoken to a second alleged victim Nottinghamshire Police confirmed that the criminal probe into the Earl's allegations he was molested at the Maidwell Hall preparatory school in the 1970s has widened He said the alleged abuse and the emotional confusion it caused led to him self-harming and wanting 'full sex from a too-early age', with him losing his virginity aged 12 to a prostitute in Italy.