If Prince George is heading to Eton where will Charlotte go?

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I know it's not been officially announced that George is going to Eton .. but if he is where will Charlotte go?

*usersldjfksdoi · Yesterday 19:21

Depends if she's bright or not and if they want boarding.
Malborough for boarding.
St Paul's if she's bright.
Francis Holland if she's as dumb as Harry*

What a nasty comment about a child.

Welly is also berkshire

Savannah is at Bradfield. Isla is still at prep school and will I should think join her sister in Bradfield. Zara's kids go to Wycliffe which is all through so likely to stay there I imagine. Mike has said he isn't keen on boarding.

Of all the cousins only Zara and Peter and William and Harry went to the same school the whole way through. Bea and Eug didn't. Neither did Louise and James who I think never went to the same school. Louise and Eug both went to George's in Windsor. Eug also went to Marlborough. Margarita went to Louise's senior school but left as it didn't suit her. Loads of other cousins went there too. Bea's school was also attended by Duke of Gloucesters daughters.

Every school they have chosen has been slightly left field a bit. If I was betting, no to full boarding but maybe flexible. So definitely near, so perhaps Bradfield (cousins there) or Wellington.

In any case they should know now where he is going by now. The family have traditionally not been academic although Bea, Eug, Louise and James seem fairly. It is massively about sport for them. Kate too. Sport will probably be a big draw as well as pastoral and mental health - given previous choices.

Where does Pippa send her kids? Oldest must be at school now.

I’ve been saying Bradfield for a while. It’s also very close to her parents.. mixed and not high pressure academically.

I have a feeling that not a high pressure, stressful environment will be the choice. Kids have enough pressure. Security is a factor though which for me completely discounts somewhere like Eton. I can walk right up to it. And was a major factor in picking first schools.

I’d be super impressed if they break from trad & aim to keep all together at low pressure, sporty school. PC super unhappy at ‘wrong’ school & Harry too, if they are sensible & pragmatic - I think so - they’ll aim for a school that can encourage happy togetherness & flexibility.

They were different times. I went to St Andrews at roughly the same time as they did and studied at the same dept as William. The uni was very highly ranked in the UK at that time, but my offer was three Cs! To me, it seems much easier to achieve an A at A level nowadays compared to then. I went to a pretty decent grammar school and only one student in the cohort (<1%) achieved three As. About 5% had AAB. Now three As is fairly common, my local school advertises that 75% of all its a levels sat received an A or a B!

True & 10/20 years before arguably even more the case. Prince Charles is famously believed to have very weak A levels indeed, B & C grades. Most will tell you mistaken though I think.

3 Cs or BCC was a pretty standard offer in the mid to late 70s, my brother was offered 3 Cs by UCL and BCC by Imperial

@MistyMountainTop yes, makes sense. No A star back then either, too.

They will all go to Marlborough I reckon.

Roedean, near London out of the way of the hoi palloi, sporty etc.

I’d be super impressed if they break from trad & aim to keep all together at low pressure, sporty school.

What if one of them is academic and not sporty? The same school might not suit all three of them. In any case, they wouldn't all three be there together for very long; George would be almost finished by the time Louis got there. Or he might go somewhere else for sixth form and not still be there at all. (Did I already say that back at the beginning of the thread? Suddenly getting a deja vu.)

Prince Charles is famously believed to have very weak A levels indeed, B & C grades.

Don't forget he spent six months in Australia when he was in the Sixth Form.

I feel like Marlborough Oundle etc are good because they're quite good for all types. Eton too. They have the size, facilities and output that means lots happily send all their DCs to them because they generally suit quite a few types of people, socially and interest-wise.

A ‘B &C’ in A levels from 70s to early 80s not as ‘weak’ as would be today.

Completely missing the point of this thread but I took A levels in 1993 and 17.7% got C and above. So B and C even then were very good grades. In 2024 27.8% were awarded A or A star.

It wouldn’t be physically safe anyway, can you imagine the security nightmare?

It wouldn’t be physically safe anyway, can you imagine the security nightmare?

It would be virtually impossible and anyway the tight security would make things hard for all the other students and parents.
I’ve just read Sarah Vine’s autobiography and her children were bullied at school by teachers because their father was Michael Gove. Imagine the stick the young royals would get.

But the key is in the “by teachers”, I doubt any other kids care much about who the parents of their classmates happen to be in real life and especially not if they are a politician!

The King is quite clearly quite bright. I’d say the brightest of all the royal family.

sporty school

Some children’s worst nightmare

I’d say the brightest of all the royal family. 😆
I'm the brightest in my family but the competition wasn't fierce.

The King is quite clearly quite bright. I’d say the brightest of all the royal family.

I agree the King is 'quite bright', but Prince Philip was also highly intelligent, with a huge range of interests.

Ah is that where it comes from?

Charles is always very articulate and interesting to listen to: well-informed and many of his projects are ones that I am drawn to so I have heard him speak on quite a few topics. He’s definitely more intelligent than your average bloke.

In fairness the late Queen was interested in education and learning but I think she didn’t get given a fair swing with the bat.

A friends dad went to school with PC (as he was then). Said he was great, fun intelligent etc. No one had a good word to say about his brother, PA, even then. Apparently