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?

I'm sure lots of people would love it.

They obviously need lots of security but why couldn’t this be identically provided in a state school as a private school.

Exactly!

Do we actually pay… doesn’t the Dutchy pay presumably for their schooling if
they are of that part of the line. Id hazard a guess Charles would of used the Dutchy to pay for both Williams and Harry’s children when he was Prince rather then king (had harrry had school age children at the time)

Presumably Harry from his income will pay for his children abroad.

The sisters (Andrew’s daughters) will pay for their childrens via their jobs/their husband.

Just leave the Royal children alone. I think the King has enough independent income to be able to afford to educate his grandchildren without recourse to the taxpayer. OP, I think you’re being hugely unreasonable.

Because the role expected of them requires more than a mediocre education, which my school was. Also they’d be completely ripped apart. It’s cruel to them. I’d rather our king have a decent education personally and pay for that out of my taxes

@Zanatdy lol there are plenty of kids who have the potential to have important roles. Important roles do not only equate to Royalty.

I think so too

Stupid thread really

I think privacy would be an issue too. As well as peer parties.

In the richer circles they move in everyone is very well used to wanting their own life’s to be private business. No wagging to the press everytime there is a party or someone’s scraped a knee or whatever.

Imagine just the local secondary down the road there would be TikTok’s for days made of the children, primary parents would be selling stories. Trying to attend a public soft play party security nightmare.

@Zanatdy why would they be ripped apart, state school children aren't barbaric.

How long until we get a sad face article by the family who lost out on a school place because of the Wales’?

Nice to see people put the Royal family on a pedestal but working parents sending their kids to private schools have been given lots of grief.

Don't trip over that bottom lip @microplastic

I actually think it would be fine for. primary. The security could be organised. Lots of primary sites are pretty secure anyway.

I can't really get my head around itfior secondary. The other children themselves become a risk factor. A private school can control its intake much more easily.

I think it would be a great idea- but it's obviously completely impractical-sadly.

The Belgian royal family and several other European royals send their children to regular schools. Low key, low fuss. Much better approach all round if you ask me. From what I can tell, most of them turn out well-rounded and personable.

Not what we can say about the current UK lot.

Tony Blair's daughter was turned down from lady Margarets precisely for the reason of security .. even if it didn't come from the Royal family pocket The Middleton family
Would pay for private

This was what I was thinking!

I mean lots of foreign schools don’t seem to have the amount of issues ours do.

maybe once we fixed the broken schools.

They have family wealth independent of the Crown so its unlikely they'd wind up in state schools.

3 reasons why this is a silly non-starter

In addition to the tax payer funding they also have enormous personal wealth so can easily afford to pay for it with their own money.

Security would be a nightmare

Its not for the government to tell individual parents where and how to educate their children.

High time we moved on from the entire ridiculous notion of a "royal family", then they could just do whatever every other privileged family does when it comes to educating their kids without the state having to fork out for a ridiculous security bill.

I say this every time a variant of this sad predictable answer comes.

1. He’d be elected, and could be unelected again, so it would have to be the will of the people rather than what he would love.
2. If he (or any other person you wouldn’t fancy as elected Head of State) had been born first child to royals he’d be king and we couldn’t do anything about it. It’s purely chance we haven’t got Andrew.