*Former teachers of Prince Harry at Eton College helped him cheat in his A-level art course because he was such a weak student, a tribunal was told yesterday.
Steven Morris
@stevenmorris20
Tue 10 May 2005 11.12 BST
Former teachers of Prince Harry at Eton College helped him cheat in his A-level art course because he was such a weak student, a tribunal was told yesterday.
One teacher allegedly prepared explanatory text to go with images produced by Harry while a second helped the prince insert the lines into a project.
The head of art at Eton also allegedly completed work for Harry which was later published in newspapers around the world.
As the prince began army officer training at Sandhurst yesterday, one of his former teachers, Sarah Forsyth, was claiming that his art exam result, which helped him get into the elite college, was flawed.
Ms Forsyth told an employment tribunal, where she is claiming unfair dismissal, that the evening before a moderator was due at the school to look at the students' AS-level work - which counts towards their A-level grade - she was asked by the head of art, Ian Burke, to prepare text to go with some of Harry's work for his Expressive Project, in which a pupil is required to explain some of his work and relate it to that of great artists.
Ms Forsyth said she was "profoundly shocked", adding: "I was concerned that this was unethical and probably constituted cheating."
She told the tribunal at Reading, Berkshire: "I assumed I had been asked to do this because Prince Harry was a weak student."*
Guardian.