Mike Egerton – PA Images/Getty ImagesPrince George is just a few months away from turning 12, and as he approaches his teenage years, it sounds like Kate Middleton is putting a lot of consideration into his future. According to what royal expert Charlotte Griffiths said in a new documentary, Prince George: How To Make a Monarch, Kate is planning to break with tradition and decide against sending George to the same place dad Prince William studied, and that means she’s “thinking outside the box.”
Prince William and Prince Harry both attended Ludgrove Prep School, followed by Eton College. Both are boarding schools, which means the brothers were living away from home starting at age 8 – and before them, King Charles also attended boarding schools during his childhood. So far, William and Kate have decided against following that particular royal tradition, and all three of their children live at home and attend Lambrook School.
But as George gets older, the time is coming for his parents to make another decision about his education, and in the new documentary, the royal commentator said Kate may want George to go to the school she went to instead: Marlborough College.
“She’s really keen for her children to have a similar experience, and for them to be happy above all else,” Charlotte said via The Mirror, adding that Kate has been consulting experts to help determine what the best path forward is for her children’s education.
It’s not just that Marlborough is a different school from the one William attended – it’s also co-ed, while Eton was boys only. That means that Charlotte and Louis will likely attend when they’re old enough, too, which would make sense. It’s always seemed important to Will and Kate to keep their kids together at school. And because it is a boarding school, it’s easy to see how it would be nice for them to have each other.
It comes at a price, though: £19,714.20 per term, or about $25,500 in US dollars. And remember that in the UK, there are three terms in a school year, so it can add up fast (especially when you multiply that by Will and Kate’s three children). But for the royal family, money is likely no object.
We won’t know for sure what the Waleses have chosen to do until George turns 13 next year, but as the future king nears that milestone, it certainly seems as if his parents are getting down to the wire to make a decision.
