to think the name of Prince George's nursery shouldn't have been disclosed?

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An article in the news today says that Prince George will be starting nursery in January and gives the name and location of the nursery.

Now I know everybody knew where Prince William and Harry went to school/uni but we are living in different times. This is a massive security risk isn't it? Surely the security at the nursery won't be as high as at their home on a private estate?

I'm really quite surprised that this information has been published.

Technically she needs to adjust that to 'A Small Part of Ireland', but admittedly it doesn't flow very well.

Did Charles's bodyguard really get a first? Brilliant if true. I was at Oxford at the same time as Chelsea Clinton, and her bodyguards used to crack me up - they were supposed (presumably) to blend in among students to let her live as normal a life as possible, but they were so huge and well-muscled and visibly armed and primed for attack at any moment, crammed around a table in whatever that little coffee place in the covered market was called, they might as well have been wearing hi-vis vests that said 'CIA-Trained Killers- BACK OFF'.

squoosh Charles went to Cambridge - same college that I attended. My boyfriend lived one year in his old room actually; it was nothing special.

The bodyguard doing the exams thing is a myth, though quite a funny and enduring one.

Disagree. security will be huge. There is now no need to keep a secret as well - a secret that would have a price on it.

Derxa appears to be a stereotypical chippy nationalist
You're confusing me with my MIL.

Maybe they have been carefully casting for years, all the parents and children as well as the nurses there are actors. Roles of playground adversary, bff, cheerful chum... they've been practising for ages. Parents cast for PTA type as well as yummy mummies and papoose hippy dad.

The castings were invitation only, they combed through the 2012-2015 pregnancy threads on mn, then issued invitations to posters who appeared to fit a stereotype required based on their posting history.

I feel sad for the wee soul. He will never know who his real friends are.

Oh he'll be fine. I imagine people in his position soon develop a radar for wannabees and social climbers.

Plenty of cousins and siblings would help him.

Ah JessieMcJessie so it's just a myth. I quite liked the idea of the bodyguard being given a verbal roasting for showing up Charlie's intellectual failings

It has always been a problem though, I read they had to start a brownie pack for the queen and her sister with carefully selected daughters of staff back in the day...

To be fair, there aren't that many options in their part of Norfolk so most local people had already narrowed it down to a very few nurseries it was likely to be.

Yep, very little choice. We looked at it for DD but they couldn't fit her in on the days I needed to go into work back then ...... bet they didn't have that problem .

There will be lots clamouring to get in, I wouldn't be massively happy if I was a current parent tbh but I bet plenty will be.

Lets hope the Stag doesn't become overrun by journalists as it is our regular haunt, quiet and lovely just as it is.

Ego I was listening to that episode just the other night!

The thing that shocked me the most about the BBC article is that the nursery fees are £33 for a full day. We're 30 miles away and the Montessori nursery DD attends (nearest nursery to us and my work) charges £47 per day for the same age group

I imagine people in his position soon develop a radar for wannabees and social climbers.

I remember Prince Charles once saying that when he was at school and university one of the difficulties he had was that people he might have liked to be friends with steered clear because they didn't want to look like climbers and wannabes, or because they thought he wouldn't want to be friends with them.

But I think George might be OK in Norfolk. I once knew someone who grew up near Sandringham and she said the locals were quite used to seeing members of the royal family out and about and didn't think much about it.

Elinor interesting comments from Charles, I can totally imagine that.

Must be on to live near Sandringham.

£33 or £47 a DAY!? Where I used to live the local shite council nursery on the dodgy housing estate was £60 a day and the others were £90 upwards a day. That was London, but not a very rich bit at all.

Love that they are sending him to a little nursery in Norfolk. The rumours here in London were that Prince George would be at Acorn or the Minors, and certain parents were already plotting how to angle for playdates and Kensington Palace invites.

William and Kate don't need to make an aspirational choice of nursery. They've already arrived at destination

It's a nursery school, not daycare.

Dont think Georges birthday parties will be down the local soft play do you

I expect the birthday parties and presents will be quite normal and straightforward. William and Kate seem to be signalling pretty strongly that they want to bring their children up as far away as possible from the corrupt and decadent celebrity circus that is central London.