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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping

Winston Churchill’s grandson reveals he was abused at prep school

Rupert Soames
Rupert Soames: ‘I was subject to some very poor behaviour.’ Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Winston Churchill’s grandson has revealed he was abused as a child while boarding at a prep school by “some masters who had an entirely unhealthy appetite for young boys”.

Speaking about his childhood on the the Crisis What Crisis? podcast, Rupert Soames, the chair of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said he was “completely unembarrassed” to talk about the abuse and that hiding painful experiences from childhood could act as a “sort of sepsis in your brain”.

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