In the process of parenting their three children, Kate Middleton and Prince William have a lot on their plates. Prince George has already paid a visit to the institution that has the potential to be his future school. This institution processes applications from prospective pupils three years in advance!
In addition to a number of other members of the royal family, Prince William attended Eton College. An good reputation is associated with the elite institution, and it seems as if it may also be George’s destiny to follow in his father’s footsteps and attend the same school.
But it seems that Kate Middleton is not in the same position as her husband when it comes to selecting schools for their children. This is something that has come to light recently. There is a fresh rumor that states that the Princess of Wales is “heartbroken” at the most recent call that William has made.
Over the course of the last several months, Prince William and Princess Kate have had a very busy schedule. The prince has been away on a trip, while Kate has stayed in the United Kingdom, where she has been carrying out her royal responsibilities and providing support for their children.
In spite of this, she has been absent from her royal responsibilities for the last several weeks, and the reason for this is that she is caring for her oldest son.
It has been reported by The Mirror that Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis are now enjoying their fall half-term breaks from school. Since the beginning of the school year on October 13, the royal children are now enjoying their first break of the year. The return of the pupils is scheduled to take place on Monday, October 30.
Because of this, Princess Kate has made the decision to reduce the number of engagements she has in order to devote more time to spending time with her children. On the other hand, Prince William is scheduled to be present for the Earthshot Prize Award ceremony. It has been reported that Prince George will be testing in a matter of weeks, and it is quite probable that he will devote part of his free time during the vacation from school to studying.
Since Kate has always placed a high priority on her family, she has decided not to go to the Earthshot Prize Award ceremony that her husband is receiving because she wants to be there for her son before he takes his tests.
It is not going to be the Princess who is present. “The princess wishes to remain at home in order to provide support for Prince George, who is scheduled to take exams during that week,” a source told The Mirror.
Not far from their residence on the Windsor grounds, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis all attend Lambrook School. Lambrook School is located in Kensington, London. There are many different activities that the children may participate in at the school, and it is likely that the presence of siblings in close proximity is a very comforting experience for the royal children.
On the other hand, as they become older, there are already discussions taking place concerning the location where the child will continue their education. It is safe to assume that Prince William and Princess Kate are faced with a choice that is of the utmost importance. However, they have already set their eyes on the new school that Prince George will be attending.
Eton College was the location where the young prince and his parents were seen exploring a few months ago. Prince William and Prince Harry both attended the famous boarding school at some point in their college careers.
The cost of tuition at Eton is around £46,000 ($59,000) per year. According to the website of the school, youngsters are required to register for the school during the year that they become ten years old. This is the case even though Prince George will not begin attending the school until he is thirteen years old.
On the other hand, what would it imply if George went to Eton? Richard Palmer, who is the royal journalist for The Express, claims that it reveals a startling amount of important information about Kate.
“I find it fascinating because the Princess of Wales is spending so much of her life talking about giving children a better start in life, and as part of that, she and her advisors have talked about reducing inequality,” he added. “I find it fascinating because she is going to spend so much of her life talking about it.”
And there you have it: her children are attending an independent school that requires payment, and it is virtually inevitable that they will eventually attend an expensive boarding school that requires payment.
From the beginning, Prince William and Kate Middleton have made it clear that they intend to provide their children with a typical upbringing. However, if this were the case, would they provide them the opportunity to attend a residential school such as Eton?
Former BBC royal expert Jennie Bond is of the opinion that it is illogical and does not make sense.
“The choice of school for the children will tell us a lot about William and Catherine,” she said in an interview with OK!
“Up until this point, they have been such hands-on parents, and I believe that it would be a personal disappointment for me to see them sending their children away to boarding school. The choice to maintain them as day students at schools that are located close to their homes is one that I would support. I believe that William and Catherine were both content when they were attending boarding school. I think that it is because of what they are familiar with, and it is possible that they will wish to share this experience with their children.
“I imagine it will be all or nothing,” Bond said, “that is to say, either all three of them will go away to school or none of them will go away to school.” I will be ecstatically applauding for them if they make the decision to keep their children close to them and to nurture them through their teenage years in the same way that they have nourished them throughout their childhood.
Throughout history, the question of where royal children attend school has been a contentious one. An example of this would be King Charles, who received his education at the renowned Gordonstoun boarding school located in Moray, Scotland. Prince Philip, the young prince’s father, was also a student there, but the young prince did not enjoy his time there as much.
As a result of being tormented by his peers, King Charles’ experience was far more traumatic than that of his father, according to the reports. During one point in time, it was said that Charles even likened it to the experience of serving a term in jail.
Moreover, King Charles disclosed that he was experiencing a great deal of homesickness in letters dated 1964. The television series The Crown also provided a thorough account of that particular chapter.
It’s a living nightmare here, particularly when it’s dark outside. The most of the time, I don’t get any sleep at all these days. There are some vile folks living in my dorm room. A letter sent by Charles made the following statement: “Goodness, they are horrifying; I don’t know how anyone could be so foul.”
It was very obvious that King Charles would not send his children to Gordonstoun because of the hardships he had personally gone through. Because of this, William, who would later become King, was able to continue his education at Eton College, which was located in London.
According to a claim in The Mirror, Prince Charles, who was alive at the time, could have also attended Eton. Prince Philip, on the other hand, maintained that it was quite near to Windsor and that he would not have had any privacy if he had lived there.
When Prince William entered Eton for the very first time in 1995, he made history by becoming the first senior member of the royal family to ever attend the prestigious institution. In the meanwhile, there were other members of the family who had previously attended the Berkshire schools. These individuals included Princess Diana’s brother and her father, as well as the cousins of the late Queen Elizabeth, Prince Edward, Prince Richard, and Prince Michael.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Harry, followed in his brother’s footsteps and entered in Eton College three years after William did. On the other hand, it seemed as if a rivalry was forming between the two royal brothers at that point in time.
In an interview with CBS from the previous year, Prince Harry discussed his school days and, more especially, his friendship with Prince William.
The Duke of Cambridge said that he was “hurt” by William himself in an interview with Anderson Cooper. The king-to-be expressed his desire for them to act as if they were unfamiliar with one another.
Even while you were attending the same high school, your brother informed you, “Pretend we don’t know each other?” This was even when you were at the same school. Inquiring was Anderson Cooper.
The response that Harry gave was, “Yeah, and at the time, it hurt.” “I was just unable to comprehend it. To which I responded, “What do you mean?” Our current location is the same school. For example, “I haven’t seen you in a very long time, and now we won’t be able to hang out together.” The way he is acting is as follows: “No, no, no, when we are at school, we do not know each other.” In addition, I took it to heart.
Harry continued by saying, “We went through a traumatic experience that was very similar to one another, and then we dealt with it in two very different ways.”
In addition, Harry included further information on the tragic things that William shared with him when he was attending Eton in his explosive book titled Spare.
Harry had been informed by William that Eton was his “sanctuary,” which meant that there would be “no kid brother tagging along, pestering him with questions, and pushing up on his social circle.”
“I reassured him that he need not be concerned. The words “I’ll forget I ever knew you” were written by Harry in Spare.
There is a possibility that Prince George will be the first member of the subsequent generations of royals to attend Eton in three full years. Only time will tell whether his siblings will come along with him, but for the time being, they are able to take pleasure in their time spent at Lambrook.
Despite the fact that Eton may be an exceptional institution, Princess Kate is experiencing a range of emotions on the decision to send her son to a boarding school.
It has been reported by In Touch Weekly that Kate has grudgingly granted Prince George’s demand to attend Eton in order to be “just like his father.” However, due to the fact that she had already been through the experience of attending boarding school, she would not have desired it in the first place.
Despite this, she is still inconsolable. She was subjected to atrocious bullying while she was attending her first boarding school, and the idea of George having to go through that is intolerable to her.
According to the information provided by the source to the news outlet, George will be allowed to pay his family a visit on the weekends. Their house in Windsor is about a five-minute drive away from the location. Notwithstanding this, Kate continues to be concerned that she will miss him terribly.
A source close to the situation stated, “However, it appears that her family is still being torn apart.”
The experience that Princess Kate had while attending boarding school was not at all ideal. Her parents, Carole and Michael, allegedly spent over $28,000 in tuition for her to attend Downe House, an all-girls boarding school, when she originally enrolled there. However, it turned out to be a nightmare for Kate.
Gemma Williamson, a classmate who attended a different school, had earlier said to The Daily Mail (via Yahoo) that “apparently, she had been bullied very badly, and she certainly looked thin and pale.” It was clear that she lacked self-assurance.
Emma Sayle, who was a Classmate of Kate’s in the past, said that the princess detested the fact that her school was “cliquey.”
She was reported by Express as saying, “It is a very cliquey school, and there was a lot of pressure,” and she made this statement to RSVP Live.
There were a significant number of females who suffered from eating problems, and all of the girls were high achievers. Everyone aspired to be the greatest, the most physically fit, and the most beautiful. My opinion is that Kate was unhappy from the very beginning.
Katie Nicholl, an expert on the royal family, continued by saying, “Being especially slender and a head taller than her peers, she stood out for the wrong reasons and was teased for being gangly and lanky.”
The fact that Kate began attending the school two years after her contemporaries, in addition to the fact that she did not ‘live’ there, was a big element in why she was treated unfairly, according to Georgina Rylance, who was a previous student at Downe House.
“It does make a difference going from eleven,” Georgina Rylance, another former student at Downe House, said in an interview with the Sunday Times, as reported by Katie Nicholl, an expert on the royal relationship. You will spend your first time apart from one other as a couple after two years of bonding. Even some of the most popular girls in my school had a difficult time at the age of thirteen when they first started attending my school.
After some time had passed, Kate made the decision to inform her parents about all that she had been through and the bullying that had taken place. Her decision to shift schools brought about a sea change in her life.
It is my sincere hope that Prince George will not have to experience anything like to what her mother suffered. But we can tell with absolute certainty that Kate will arrive in a matter of seconds to make certain that her cherished boy, who will one day become king, is being treated with respect by his peers.