Royal style and gossip: monochrome Megs, colourful Kate, the whacky hats of Max

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Link to the previous thread, which was fast filling up!

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What the Phillips/Tindalls/Cambridge's/Sussexes and Brooksbank's do will speak volumes about their own experiences I think

W and H were full time boarders from a young age. Diana was much like other aristocratic mothers, not with them as much as we are with ours.

Lady Louise has not gone to board as far as I know but it may have been considered against her interest as she is visually impaired

The wedding wasn’t a place beginning with F, although it could be with S.

Boarding from 7/8 is normal in my age group. Sadly. Both my parents did at that age, although I didn’t until 12.

I went to schools where boarders were 7/8.

All my school friends have said they’d never let their children board after what we experienced.

Sophie still does the school run, so they must be day pupils.

Does anyone know how old Kate was when she started to board? They seem to follow the Middleton way when it comes to family things.

It's 13 at Marlborough isn't it? I don't think younger

Her wiki says she was a day girl and only boarded part weekly in her final years so 11/12

At her prep I mean before Marlborough

Perhaps they will something similar then. I should think George going to Eton is a given.

7 is very young. What amazed me was that dcs school the amount of overseas children who were full boarders at the age of 11. Dcs were day pupils & struggled with the transition to senior school. I hate to think of the overseas pupils difficulties.

You'd certainly hope they'd leave it later these days. 13 is one thing - I'd have loved to have boarded at that age (too much Mallory Towers at bedtime...). But 7 just seems bloody brutal. IMO.

When I was a child, I was threatened with boarding school if I misbehaved (which I did a lot!) And yet strangely enough, I loved Mallory Towers, St. Claire's etc.

Quite a few schools weekly board for years 7 & 8, it’s supposed to help them settle into full boarding in yr 9 (aged 13). One of the boys from my son’s prep moved to boarding in yr 4, he only did a year at the London prep school. DH boarded from his 9th birthday, but he grew up somewhere remote & his parents were v traditional. Our children do not board and we intentionally moved somewhere when dd1 was 3 so they’d never have to.

I know it's Buzzfeed, but this list has a really good round up of some of Meghan's outfits from the tour.

I was sent to board, my parents told me it would be like Mallory Towers. It wasn’t at all.....

My cousins boarded from 4, which I think was outrageous. I don't know what my aunt and uncle were thinking.

I was rather bemused reading that article in the Mail. It's just dragging up the same old stuff and he does seem very closely associated with it, it really doesn't do much for his image.

4! Jesus Christ. DS will turn 3 at Christmas, the idea of sending him away to school just over a year away is horrendous. I'm not looking forward to him starting at the village primary school, never mind shipping him off (well. I say that. Some days...)

Blimey, it makes me glad to be the plebbiest of plebs.

My two turned 5 in August. They would go to pieces if we sent them to board at school. So, so young

My sons’s friend’s small daughter boarded at age 6. A baby really. His other friend went to the same schools as W and H and said you never got close to W but H was always aproachable and friendly.

One line from an article about the upper class attitude towards school that has stuck with me is "even for someone as famously fond of children as Diana Spencer, a day school was not an option."

I can't see George or Charlotte bring shipped off to board before they reach secondary school age, and perhaps Harry's child never will as I doubt Meghan boarded.

My DS has just turned 8. The thought of him boarding fills me with horror.
There is a reason why ex public school boys survive well in prison....

@AhoyDelBoy

In answer to your question about PC in their 20s.
As pp said Andrew Parker Bowles was dating princess Anne. Camilla went after Charles to make APB jealous.
Charles Apparently dithered, went away to see.
APB was a non starter with Anne because he was Catholic. APB proposed & Camilla accepted.

Louise Windsor goes to St Mary's in Ascot which I think is a day school, but James' school hasn't been made public. I don't think he's old enough for Eton yet.

Didn’t Beatrice go to St Mary’s as well?
Eugenie went to Marlborough; Beatrice didn’t board