AUSTRALIA
Telegraph (UK)
By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney
03 Sep 2015
It is the exclusive, 160-year-old private school in Australia long described in glowing terms by its most famous old boy, Prince Charles, who “loved it” despite being called a “Pommie bastard” and enduring 70-mile hikes.
For the young Prince, his two terms at Geelong Grammar in 1966 – mostly at the 325-hectare Timbertop campus in rural Victoria – appear to have been character-building but rewarding. It “was hell,” the prince recalled during a return visit to the school in 2005, “but despite all this, I loved it all”.
Though the Prince was no doubt unaware, some of his fellow students at the school were experiencing far more horrific forms of abuse.
The school – whose other notable alumni include media mogul Rupert Murdoch and novelist Peter Carey – has been publicly shamed this week, as it emerged that staff failed to crack down on rampant child sex assaults lasting several decades.
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