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Cambridge kids going to Lambrook

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Cruella78 · 25/08/2022 08:45

Looks like a lovely sporty school. Wish I had the finances to send my dc to a similar school. If Lambrook wasn't oversubscribed before the Cambridges announcement it certainly will be now...

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Cruella78 · 26/08/2022 08:26

Just to add I had never heard of Lambrook until the Cambridge children were announced as new starters.

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FatOaf · 26/08/2022 08:30

Why are kids from Cambridge en masse going to a school in Berkshire?

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Cruella78 · 26/08/2022 08:38

@FatOaf , I'm sure you realise I'm talking about the royal kids? 😂 Unless kids from Cambridge are all uprooting when the royals announced the new school 😂

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TheWayTheLightFalls · 26/08/2022 09:58

I always feel a bit bad for the other parents when this kind of thing happens (I rememeber feeling the same when the oldest one started at St Thomas'). As in, you look around various schools, choose carefully which one matches your ethos/orientation/goals for your child/logistics/leavers' destinations etc, and suddenly two minutes before your own kid starts it's like "Surprise! Three of the world's most famous and cossetted children will be joining us too. Of course it won't affect your child's experience £21,000 bill, just ignore the large men at the door and no pictures on sports day pls thx." That sort of vibe. I dunno, may just be me.

autocollantes · 26/08/2022 10:16

TheWayTheLightFalls totally agree. It will also change class dynamics - who wants to be the parents who don't invite a Cambridge to a birthday party. Imagine the threads on here!

Plus, quite honestly, having seen how many people at a smallish business event I was at years ago badmouthed a member of the royal family as a waste of space until he turned up at the event and then at least 80% of attendees were (literally) pushing to get close to him, the politics with some other parents (not the Cambridges themselves) would be a nightmare. I've seen it with parents who want an ambassador's child invited to their events so they can get invited to parties at the ambo's residence. So that group of parents would be a nightmare if there was the future king in the class. Mind you, maybe they'd just self-combust! 😂 The good thing about them though is they always let you know who they are by "quietly" (never too brashly) dropping in where they were last night or where their child(ren) are going for a sleepover, or some "silly incident" that happened when they were there.

On the other side it must be awful never knowing if someone genuinely likes you/your child or if they're only really interested in your title.

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Cruella78 · 26/08/2022 11:25

TheWayTheLightFalls · 26/08/2022 09:58

I always feel a bit bad for the other parents when this kind of thing happens (I rememeber feeling the same when the oldest one started at St Thomas'). As in, you look around various schools, choose carefully which one matches your ethos/orientation/goals for your child/logistics/leavers' destinations etc, and suddenly two minutes before your own kid starts it's like "Surprise! Three of the world's most famous and cossetted children will be joining us too. Of course it won't affect your child's experience £21,000 bill, just ignore the large men at the door and no pictures on sports day pls thx." That sort of vibe. I dunno, may just be me.

I often wondered that too, even the party etiquette.. How does that work.. Easy to tell I don't move in those circles.. However if a royal was at dc's birthday party I would want my neighbours, my nieces & nephews along with the class & wouldn't be happy to have a no photo policy... I wonder do they politely decline many invites..

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Cruella78 · 26/08/2022 11:28

autocollantes · 26/08/2022 10:16

TheWayTheLightFalls totally agree. It will also change class dynamics - who wants to be the parents who don't invite a Cambridge to a birthday party. Imagine the threads on here!

Plus, quite honestly, having seen how many people at a smallish business event I was at years ago badmouthed a member of the royal family as a waste of space until he turned up at the event and then at least 80% of attendees were (literally) pushing to get close to him, the politics with some other parents (not the Cambridges themselves) would be a nightmare. I've seen it with parents who want an ambassador's child invited to their events so they can get invited to parties at the ambo's residence. So that group of parents would be a nightmare if there was the future king in the class. Mind you, maybe they'd just self-combust! 😂 The good thing about them though is they always let you know who they are by "quietly" (never too brashly) dropping in where they were last night or where their child(ren) are going for a sleepover, or some "silly incident" that happened when they were there.

On the other side it must be awful never knowing if someone genuinely likes you/your child or if they're only really interested in your title.

We have those sort of parents at the dc's school.. However it's not as posh as an ambassador, the doctors & solicitors kids are always seen as "good" types of friends by a certain crew.. If there was a royal in the school they would lose the run of themselves!

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RaRaRaspoutine · 26/08/2022 12:07

Whilst people are about to die from the heat v eat choice...

FatOaf · 26/08/2022 12:10

@FatOaf , I'm sure you realise I'm talking about the royal kids? 😂

No. How would I know that? They're not from Cambridge and their name isn't Cambridge, so when you said "Cambridge kids going to Lambrook" I assumed you meant kids from Cambridge, given that is literally what you wrote.

TheHorrorOfIt · 26/08/2022 12:10

Lambrook is well-known as a feeder school for Eton - I’m sure they anticipate a lot of those sort of families!

BonesOfWhatYouBelieve · 26/08/2022 12:24

FatOaf · 26/08/2022 12:10

@FatOaf , I'm sure you realise I'm talking about the royal kids? 😂

No. How would I know that? They're not from Cambridge and their name isn't Cambridge, so when you said "Cambridge kids going to Lambrook" I assumed you meant kids from Cambridge, given that is literally what you wrote.

To be fair, they are called George Cambridge & Charlotte Cambridge at school.

But I also had the same thought when I read the thread title.

capedavenger · 26/08/2022 12:55

I always wonder what it would be like if the royal children were badly behaved at school. EG if Charlotte was picking on another child or Louis was disrupting his class for example. Would staff comfortably treat them the same as any other child or would there be a tendency to let things slide or put the blame on other children?
Hopefully not but the staff there are only human and might feel quite pressured.

NoNotHimTheOtherOne · 26/08/2022 14:46

To be fair, they are called George Cambridge & Charlotte Cambridge at school.

Not sure how you know that but, assuming it's the case, when their great-grandmother dies will their assumed surname suddenly change to Wales? Their name isn't Cambridge and it won't be Wales (or, after that, England, Commonwealth, Rex or anything else like that).

Whitney168 · 26/08/2022 14:53

I don't imagine they'll be the richest family with kids at Lambrook, and they won't be the only ones with bodyguards either.

SoupDragon · 26/08/2022 14:57

RaRaRaspoutine · 26/08/2022 12:07

Whilst people are about to die from the heat v eat choice...

🙄

RoseAndRose · 26/08/2022 14:58

My guess is that some posters are being a bit sarky because there's already threads in the topic and in AIBU about this

I know it's OK to start as many threads as you like , where you like. But the flipside of that is that the umpteenth thread does end up with less temperate comments

TooManyPJs · 26/08/2022 16:42

@BonesOfWhatYouBelieve

Isn't their surname Windsor or Mountbatten-Windsor?

SoupDragon · 26/08/2022 16:46

TooManyPJs · 26/08/2022 16:42

@BonesOfWhatYouBelieve

Isn't their surname Windsor or Mountbatten-Windsor?

William and Harry were known as Wales and I do think it was said that Williams children would be Cambridge.

Archie is a Mountbatten-Windsor though.

BonesOfWhatYouBelieve · 26/08/2022 17:38

TooManyPJs · 26/08/2022 16:42

@BonesOfWhatYouBelieve

Isn't their surname Windsor or Mountbatten-Windsor?

I think it's like how Harry was Captain Wales when he was in the army. Rather than captain Windsor, or Mountbatten.

I've just googled George's birth certificate out of curiosity and in the "name and surname" box it says "his royal highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge", so there doesn't seem to be an official surname in the way the rest of us would have one.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23552087

gatehouseoffleet · 26/08/2022 18:10

FatOaf · 26/08/2022 12:10

@FatOaf , I'm sure you realise I'm talking about the royal kids? 😂

No. How would I know that? They're not from Cambridge and their name isn't Cambridge, so when you said "Cambridge kids going to Lambrook" I assumed you meant kids from Cambridge, given that is literally what you wrote.

I didn't think you were referring to the Rotal Cambridges either, I'd not heard of Lambrook and thought maybe kids going to Cambridge Uni were being shipped off somewhere because they didn't have enough accommodation Grin

gatehouseoffleet · 26/08/2022 18:12

capedavenger · 26/08/2022 12:55

I always wonder what it would be like if the royal children were badly behaved at school. EG if Charlotte was picking on another child or Louis was disrupting his class for example. Would staff comfortably treat them the same as any other child or would there be a tendency to let things slide or put the blame on other children?
Hopefully not but the staff there are only human and might feel quite pressured.

I suspect they'd let it slide. A bit like the big (football) clubs always get more referee decisions in their favour.

gatehouseoffleet · 26/08/2022 18:12

RoYAL, not RoTal.

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Cruella78 · 14/03/2023 13:34

Bumping out of sheer interest. I wonder if the dynamic has changed & if photos at sports day etc have changed?

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