article_snippet: his made the comments at the Oxford Literary Festival while discussing his book, A Humour Of Love, in which his reveals years of abuse, including a single rape, carried out by his own father.
article_snippet: That feeling was hinted at by his own father, by sometimes making comments comparing me to my mother who was missing. '
article_snippet: his own father never said it in outright terms
article_snippet: – we never discussed what his own father was doing in any terms whatsoever
article_snippet: but it was implicit that I was helping his own father emotionally.'
article_snippet: At the time of the book's publication, in September last year, his own father said it would likely sour relations between his own father and his own father elder brother John, the 11th earl, who is also a peer in the House of Lords.
article_snippet: Speaking now, his own father says his own father family are 'cross and unhappy' with the book, and that his own father is given dark looks at family events, and hug which are then turned into pushes.
article_snippet: However, his own father has repeatedly stated that his own father felt the story needed to be told, after his own father revealed the abuse to his own father mother and family doctor as a young boy, only for it to be swept under the rug.
article_snippet: Asked why there was such a reluctance for his father's story to be told, his father said: 'In our case it has been because of the Establishment.