{"id":2510500,"date":"2026-07-21T05:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510500"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:14:17","slug":"why-prince-george-is-the-best-prepared-teenage-heir-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-prince-george-is-the-best-prepared-teenage-heir-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Prince George is the best-prepared teenage heir in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The case for Eton is clear. Unusually, even for a top boarding school, the boys of F block (first years, to the outside world) each have a bedroom to themselves. George will be just down the road from his family in Windsor, and there are no girls to complicate matters in front of prying eyes. Year-nine boys, of which George will be one from September, are not allowed smartphones, instead being allowed only a \u201cbrick phone\u201d for basic contact with their families.<\/p>\n

William and Catherine are determined, sources say, that their son should be allowed to continue his education in peace and privacy \u2013 and the brick phone policy is integral to ensuring that. The Prince and Princess are \u201cextremely protective\u201d of their children, says Russell Myers, the best-selling author of William and Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story<\/em>, <\/em>but they are also accessible and approachable. They will be on hand to help George \u201cnavigate\u201d the challenges of the modern world if need be, Myers says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam\u2019s experience of Eton was a happy one, but both he and Catherine realise their children\u2019s school lives may be considerably different in today\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are highly alert to the dangers of social media. The Prince has previously tried to persuade tech giants to do more to protect children (\u201cFight back against the intolerance and cruelty that has been brought to the surface by your platforms,\u201d he urged them in 2018), and the Princess\u2019s illness<\/a> has left her even more convinced about the need to swap screens for outdoor time. \u201cIn an increasingly digitalised world, where so much of life is mediated through screens, the need for genuine human connection has never been greater,\u201d she said earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Choosing Eton, Myers explains, was a family decision. \u201cIf it didn\u2019t work for him, it didn\u2019t work for the family,\u201d he says. \u201cThis shows how connected they are and how George and his siblings have been prepared for whatever may lie ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melanie Sanderson, the managing editor of The Good Schools Guide<\/em>, says Prince George, like most of his cohort, will be \u201creally well prepared\u201d for Eton, where all new starters are \u201ctiny fish in a big pond\u201d and must master the skill of being in the \u201cright place at the right time\u201d for classes in what is sometimes described as a \u201cmini university\u201d town.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys are expected to be really independent from the word go,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a big place with a lot of people and a lot on offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The case for Eton is clear. Unusually, even for a top boarding school, the boys of F block (first years, to the outside world) each have a bedroom to themselves. George will be just down the road from his family in Windsor, and there are no girls to complicate matters in front of prying eyes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2510501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[341313,433747,21738,387181,460878,23394,37936,22769,21928,344742,441762,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2510500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-eton-college","tag-hannah-furness","tag-news","tag-other-features","tag-premium-inclusion","tag-prince-george","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal-family","tag-social-media","tag-standard","tag-telegraph-long-reads","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Why-Prince-George-is-the-best-prepared-teenage-heir-in-history.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510502,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510500\/revisions\/2510502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}