Boris is going to write in the Daily Mail

I think he was possibly over-indulged as a child

They were probably neglected - I don't mean not fed or clothed but let to get on with whatever they wanted to do and bad behaviour just ignored.

He absolutely was not.
His father beat his mother who had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalised due to it.
Johnson witnessed it.
For years Boris and Rachel, as young children, were shuttled between England and New York.
Stanley Johnson was a monster.
When they lived in France, he made the au pairs (who raised the Johnson children) work on the nude, ‘to save on laundry’

Johnson saw his father break Charlotte’s nose.
Stanley married Charlotte for her family’s money

Thanks Fanny, saved me the need to post these truths about Stanley Johnson. What a father figure as your role model. Still, Boris Johnson had free choice, out do Stanley or live a decent, honest life. We know what Boris Johnson chose.
Rachel Johnson wrote a few years ago about the level of neglect they grew up with. Shuttled between their parents homes in France and England. She said had they lived on a council estate, social workers would have got involved. Her piece reminded me of Diana Spencer, escorting her brother in long train journeys from their fathers home, so they could visit their mother.
I’ve long seen the similarities in neglect and emotional abuse is some very wealthy families and those seen as deprived

Totally agree, Iam64
I recall Rachel saying that too.
Fortunately, Rachel and her other brothers seem to be decent characters.

It was very common for wealthy people to ignore or ship their kids off to boarding school or have others look after them.

My friend/neighbour’s parents were very wealthy and had five kids. They lived at home but were looked after by “a lady from the village”. So when they weren’t at school, she did everything for and with them. She died a few years ago in her 90s and my friend was heartbroken but her parents died a few years earlier and very little fuss was made at all.

It still is Primrose, ‘very common for wealthy people to ignore or ship their kids off to boarding school or have others look after them’

They weren’t actually that ‘wealthy’, it was Charlotte’s father’s money (Sir James Fawcett, barrister and President of the European Commission for Human Rights)

Iam64

Thanks Fanny, saved me the need to post these truths about Stanley Johnson. What a father figure as your role model. Still, Boris Johnson had free choice, out do Stanley or live a decent, honest life. We know what Boris Johnson chose.
Rachel Johnson wrote a few years ago about the level of neglect they grew up with. Shuttled between their parents homes in France and England. She said had they lived on a council estate, social workers would have got involved. Her piece reminded me of Diana Spencer, escorting her brother in long train journeys from their fathers home, so they could visit their mother.
I’ve long seen the similarities in neglect and emotional abuse is some very wealthy families and those seen as deprived

I've kind of seen this before - 'comfortably off' parents leading chaotic lives because of careers or other reasons - indulging their children through neglect, allowing them 'freedoms' that more organised families wouldn't.

Many years ago I had a spell where I needed to work, but not full-time, and answered one of those adverts in "The Lady" (composed as if it'd been written in the 1880s!). A fairly wealthy family (possibly more on paper than in reality) wanted a home-help. The lady of the house had 4 children, all under the age of 6. She was also a portrait-painter, working on a few local commissions. Two au-pairs were employed (together) to look after the children who were, basically, allowed more or less to do what they wanted.
Neglectful indulgence. I have an abiding memory of the four children all sitting around the breakfast table in a very 1950s dilapidated kitchen in this huge Edwardian house, eating boiled eggs. The eldest child, a girl, was left 'in charge' and was encouraging her younger brother to get on with eating. She turned to me with an air of exasperation and sighed, "oh God, he's such a bore with eggs"!
Father was doing something in 'the City', mother was out painting portraits, and the au-pairs were washing and ironing the children's clothes, cleaning their rooms, preparing food, etc - and taking it in turns to nurse the youngest of 9 months - whilst the others just did their own thing. Absolutely chaotic.

Iam64

It still is Primrose, ‘very common for wealthy people to ignore or ship their kids off to boarding school or have others look after them’

My DH was "shipped off to boarding school" despite his mother being rather poor (scholarship) and he certainly hasn't turned out like Boris Johnson.

I just asked DH if he thought he was in any way like Boris.
The look on his face said it all 😲 😁
He then asked "Was Trump shipped off to boarding school too?"