After months of speculation, a major decision has been made about Prince George’s future.
Kensington Palace confirmed on Tuesday that the 12-year-old will follow in his father’s footsteps and attend the prestigious Eton College when the UK school term begins in September.
He currently is enrolled as a boarding student at Lambrook School, but will finish up in the coming weeks.
“Kensington Palace can confirm that Prince George will attend Eton College in September,” a spokesman said.
Enrolment at Eton, which was founded just under 600 years ago, costs around £63,000 (A$120,000) per year.
Both Prince William and Prince Harry – as well as 20 British prime ministers and celebrities including Eddie Redmayne, Dominic West and Tom Hiddleston – attended the school in Berkshire, not far from Windsor Castle.
The location means the family will be close by: the Wales family recently moved to the £16 million (A$32 million) Grade-II listed eight-bedroom mansion Forest Lodge on the Windsor estate. They’d previously lived in the nearby Adelaide Cottage.
William began as a student at Eton in 1995, while Harry started in 1998.
The King’s eldest son spoke in June 2000 about his school experience, saying that he’d “really enjoyed being able to go about Eton as just another student.”
However, Harry’s time there was a little different: in his 2023 memoir, Spare, he wrote about how he’d found settling in to Eton to be a “profound shock” – and how he’d eventually decided to focus on physical activities.
“Sport, I decided, would be my thing at Eton,” he explained in the book, adding that his brother had ignored him when he arrived.
“Willy told me to pretend I didn’t know him. For the last two years, he explained, Eton had been his sanctuary,” Harry claimed.
“No kid brother tagging along, pestering him with questions, pushing up on his social circle. He was forging his own life, and he wasn’t willing to give that up.”
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