Royal Children - Time for State school?

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Should the Royal Family children be educated in state schools? Why do they get to attend private schools on taxpayers money? Is this something the Labour government could push for?

Bless some people are super patronising.
It is not clever and it is not a nice trait.

I think you don't understand how the British political system works or what a Constitutional Monarchy is.

Stupid idea it's not a race to the bottom of course royal children will be privately educated or educated at home with tutors which is probably very lonely for the children

Of course - along with a lot of others including Politicians and Investors. The RF are certainly not unique in their ability to acquire wealth - especially since the Restoration.

The East India Company in particular made incredible profits (and caused untold misery) but they were Businessmen like Trump - but rather more successful. They passed on their wealth to their children just the same but I don't hear anyone decrying their inherited wealth.

You think state education is the bottom?
Maybe we should do something about that, if true?

Oh my god and I'd like a refund on that awful pair Harry and Meghan. That massive wedding etc then just grifting. Plus why are their children Prince and Princess when they live in California? Ludicrous.

Yes it is if your paying thousands a year for an education you want results

I don’t have a problem with them tbh.
However that is exactly what royalty means. Whether you like them or not they are entitled to the titles etc.

Sorry, that makes no sense.

But that’s just how inheritance works - lots of other non royal people in the UK owe their current fortunes to some ancestor who made/fought for/worked for a big chunk of land and cash in the past.

The lucky ones have ancestors who managed the money well, increasing and protecting assets.

The less fortunate ones had ancestors who made bad choices and lost the family fortunes.

The current King and heir come by their fortune by a bizarre and complicated pathway of accidents of birth and arranged marriages.

But then so has everyone else.

Where do you draw the line on who is allowed to inherit by luck of the draw.

All inheritances are unearned - from Balmoral to someone’s parents semi detached in Coventry.

The line Royalists always say is that the royal weddings bring in masses of tourism and generate national income. Are you saying that is not the case and all their weddings and state occasions cost us, the taxpayers, lots of money?

No reason why they shouldnt have same school experience as most UK children have.

Not if you've left and want no part of it, and spend your life being critical. Anyway. I can't be doing with them. Nothing will stop that level of entitlement unless you stop people having silly titles and making money from them.

Yes.

I'd add that if you get the massive wedding then decide that you didn't want the gig after all, we should get a refund.

I agree.

Look where all the labour MP and Peers send their children.We all want the best for our kids.
Improve the worst schools do not destroy the best.

I think it's only fairly recent overall that Royal children attended school rather than home tutored

I think it was the late Queens children who were first to attend schools?

I was going to say something like this. The Royal family are Royal but they are also a private family. They have to have some areas of their lives where they make decisions for the good of their children, rather than based on how they are perceived by the public.

In other European countries, Royal children attend state schools. Follow their security planning as an example. Maybe the ‘trickle down effect’ would happen and state schools might actually start getting adequate funding… I’m sure if little George came home saying the school had run out of glue sticks, white board pens and their were no resources for his art lesson - maybe things would start to change. What would Princess Catherine have to say when she heard that the Reception class had been covered by a TA for weeks?
Come on low tax for rich is supposed to trickle down to us poor folk and improve our financial outcomes. Low education standards for the rich and all kids get a good education… Is that how it works????

Maybe. Believe the king went to Gordon something in Scotland. But I don't think the late queen and princess Margaret attended school

Well quite. Let’s stop that.

I completely agree with you, but humans always find ways of forming some sort of hierarchy, so there would, I don’t know, be the presidents children, who would take the place of the former royal children. Or the rich would see their children as more important than us ragamuffins who come from nowhere. It just goes on and on doesn’t it. I for one would love to see titles like ‘Lord’ and ‘Lady’ scrapped for a start, it automatically fills them with importance over everyone, I just don’t get how anyone should be perceived as more important because of a made up birthright!