Why is Prince George not going to secondary school until after he turns 13?

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Prince William reveals Prince George, 12, is already boarding at £10,669-a-term Lambrook School mol.im/a/15846933 via https://dailym.ai/android

I saw this article in the DM saying Prince George is currently boarding at Lambrook "ahead of moving to his secondary school in September". He turns 13 in July so the thought occurred to me - why is he still in primary school? Should he not have started secondary in 2024 when he was 11?

I don't know, his life is mapped out for him, and much of it sounds pretty boring. It's the ultimate gilded cage.

I don't think I could ever have married William (not that he asked! 🤣) because it does condemn your children to this gilded cage.

And yet we all feed the beast of the royal family system

Boarding has changed since the 1950s.

Who knows if this is right or wrong but I read a report that Prince William wasn't told he was going to be King. It was a child at school who told him.

Who knows when George was told about his future.
He does have more choice than William he won't necessarily have to do military service.

Mine had the option of flexi boarding at prep, they loved one night a week, had the best time.

what's usually understood by boarding, which is where a child is some distance from home and only goes home in the holidays, and where contact with parents is discouraged for the first three weeks. Where they are dropped off not knowing anyone and just have to stick it out.

This is utter crap and you clearly know nothing about actual contemporary boarding at responsible schools, @NameChangeMay2026.

For current parents, racing up and down the motorway or living on trains to and from the school can be pretty much a full time job. ‘Only goes home in the holidays’ my arse! While the youngest in our family was at one of the prominent schools being discussed on this thread, they were rarely at school for more than two or three weeks at a time and we could see them on pretty much any day we liked, in person. As well as for virtually unlimited time, outside lessons, on FaceTime. contact with parents is discouraged for the first three weeks. Nope! Wrong again. They were FaceTiming us with all the exciting newness of it all whenever they had time. From the start. ‘Dropped off not knowing anyone’. Again, wrong. Even if they hadn’t come up from a prep with several of their little playmates, it’s part of the housemaster’s job to ensure all the new boys in his house have met and spent some time together before the start of the academic year. And it’s the duty of older pupils to help them acclimatise.

The other obvious thing is that by the time a boy joins the school he’d have spent plenty of time there during the application and entry process. And decided he liked it and enjoyed being there. Absolutely no question of being dropped off in a strange environment and abandoned there till Christmas.

Why not do some research before spouting nonsense?

Coming from a state school, I also think it's pretty weird to pay to go to school, tbh.

This may be a situation to consider the term 'check your privilege'.

If you've never had to think about those children who have specific needs that can't be met by the local state school, you are indeed privileged.

Just what Britain needs. A monarch with no formal secondary education, even less able to relate to its citizens than extreme wealth already makes it, and with highly educated courtiers whose respect for the monarch will diminish.

@IdaGlossop can you explain why you think the education he’s getting at Lambrook is “not a formal education”.
There is no indication he won’t attend a secondary at 13 or attend uni and receive a full education.
Lambrook has an excellent reputation.

I am being sarcastic, in response to @LeedsLoiner saying he doesn't need a formal education because he has a job lined up. Of course he will attend a secondary and probably university too. My post refers to formal secondary education, to distinguish it from the formal prep education he is receiving at Lambrook.

Typo

@BreakingBroken you may want to look up ‘sardonicism’, and words to that effect, and then re-examine @IdaGlossop’s post!

(Slow typing!)

I think boarding school is generally an appalling idea-but I do think it might be a very good thing for George. A chance for him to have an almost normal life.

Lambrook offers flexi and weekly boarding so no one is really staying there full time weeks on end.
He most likely is staying over/flexi based on school or parent events.

So that when he arrives he’ll be better prepared to fight the buggers orf and kneel to make their toast

Let’s hope it all works out better for him than for his great great uncle David oh and and Uncle Harry, not to mention great Uncle Andrew.

This is just the Daily Mail obsessing again about where Prince George is headed next , because that story of speculation hasn’t been running for years and selling for some very bizarre reason!
And so the implication is look George is practising his boarding, so clearly he will be off to some posh boarding school. Yes thanks Daily Mail, we know Prince George is going to some posh boarding school because you have been speculating about which one for years!

Kinda weird that you're so interested in the personal lives of small children, but aside from George and Louis each having a brother, they have first cousins on their mum's side and probably have other boy second cousins through their mum too. Lucas Tindall is only three years younger than Louis. Camilla has grandsons, albeit a little older, but at a good "fun" role model age for George. Their parents probably also have friends with kids around their age. Somehow I doubt that George and Louis are bereft of company and friends. If anything, they have a rich social life and do lots of fun things.

How does that compare to the gilded cage of the Sussex children being hidden from view like Flowers in the Attic ?

I wonder how play dates are set up?

Well, you know a lot .🤔

And you think I am weird for being “ interested in the lives of small children”. I am not the one wearing out my google finger.

Hidden in plain sight more likely. MM is absolutely itching to monetise those kids. I expect she has got them learning show tunes and tap dancing so they will really bring in the likes and clicks!