Rupert Soames, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, said he was sexually abused by two teachers at St Aubyns School in the 1960s.
Mr Soames, 66, said he was abused at St Aubyns, a boys’ preparatory school in Rottingdean, from the age of “eight or nine” and the abuse went on “for some years”.
Sussex Police charged Jeffrey Nicholls with sex offences against three boys following a probe lasting more than two years.
The force investigated reports from four men who said they were sexually assaulted as children by a teacher between 1990 and 1995.
Jeffrey Nicholls, 73, of Waterloo Road in Cardiff, is charged with three counts of indecent assault of a boy under 16, two counts of indecent assault on a boy under 14, and one count of making an indecent image of a child.
Mr Nicholls will appear in court later this month.
The school, which closed in 2013, was also attended by Rupert Soames’ father, Nicholas Soames, who was MP for Mid Sussex from 1997 to 2019, having previously served as MP for Crawley from 1983 to 1997.
Mr Soames, a long-time business executive who has led major companies, was elected CBI chairman last year.
After starting his career at General Electric, he became known in the business world for running security company Serco for nine years and Aggreko, a power company.
Mr Soames previously said on the Crisis What Crisis? podcast that he had suffered from abuse when he was at St Aubyn’s prep school.
“I was sent to boarding school at seven… and it had some of the sins of boarding schools, including some masters who had an entirely unhealthy appetite for young boys,” he said.
“I was subject to some very poor behaviour.”
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