Princess Kate recently made a secret visit to her alma mater Marlborough

In June, Prince William and Kate took their eldest child on a tour of Eton. Eton is the go-to boarding school for every posh boy in the UK, it’s the school for future prime ministers, kings and captains of industry. The connections formed at Eton can last a lifetime. It’s really funny, then, that most of William’s Eton friends are just, like, club promoters and well-heeled snobs. Still, the establishment demands that Prince George go to Eton, and it’s more than likely that he will go there in a few years. Kate is said to be pretty broken up about it and she and William have been “arguing for years” about it. She’s built her entire work-shy image around being a “hands-on mother” who must be available for every single school run. Kate doesn’t really want any of her kids to go to boarding school, she would prefer her kids to be “day students” at some posh school, like her alma mater, Marlborough. Speaking of, Kate was seen visiting Marlborough recently, per Richard Eden’s column in the Mail:

Having endured two miserable terms at Downe House where, it has been said, she was the target of school bullies, Kate Middleton was delighted to arrive at Marlborough College in the 1990s. She excelled in the classroom as well as on the sports field before she went on to St Andrews University, where she met Prince William. Now, I can reveal, the Princess of Wales has made a secret return visit to her beloved alma mater.

‘Catherine was here the other day,’ a source at the £46,995-per-year boarding school in Wiltshire tells me. ‘It’s been the talk of the school.’ Parents speculate that the Princess may be thinking about sending her elder son, Prince George, to co-educational Marlborough, where her sister, Pippa, and brother, James, were also pupils. Princess Eugenie, Samantha Cameron and comedian Jack Whitehall are among its other alumnae.

George, aged ten, is in Year 6 at Lambrook prep school in Berkshire, but was recently spotted looking around Eton College with his family ahead of a potential move there. His father attended Eton, as did his uncle, Prince Harry, who wrote in his memoirs, Spare, about how it was the wrong choice of school for him.

Catherine will not join William in Singapore for the Earthshot Prize awards next month because Prince George has school exams that week. For the first time since launching the environmental award, the Prince will fly solo when he heads to Asia. A Kensington Palace source confirmed that the Princess wanted to remain at home to support their elder son. All applicants for Year 9 sit an online pre-test in the autumn term of Year 6, either at their current school or at an agreed centre. Eton also requests a head teacher’s report covering a boy’s academic strengths, interests and character.

Pupils are then chosen to go forward to the second stage, an assessment later in the academic year before successful candidates are offered a conditional place, pending an entrance exam sat in Year 8. Similar tests are held at around the same time for applicants to Marlborough College.

[From The Daily Mail]

It’s sort of cute that Kate thinks that she could get away with sending George to Marlborough. She’s not going to win that battle, even though she got her way about the kids’ early education. I’ve always believed that Kate got her way because A) William truly did not give a sh-t and B) because she would eventually have to send the kids to boarding school when they turn 12/13. Anyway, it’s also possible that she wants Charlotte to go to her alma mater, and there’s a good chance Kate would get her way on that. But George is going to Eton. At least she gets two more years of not doing anything because of “the school run” and “preparing George for Eton.”

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Traveling along The Mall in a carriage at Trooping The Colour. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince George Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY** King Charles III leads members of The Royal Family on his first Trooping the Colour, the monarch’s official birthday parade Featuring: Prince William of Wales Catherine Princess of Wales with Prince George, Princess Charlotte Prince Louis Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2023 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE** The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to the Grange Pavilion in Cardiff to meet with members from the Windrush Cymru Elders, Black History Cymru 365, and the Ethnic Minority Youth Forum for Wales, and hear about the contribution the Windrush generation has had on the Welsh community and learn about how young minority ethnic individuals are creating positive change. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Cardiff, United Kingdom When: 02 Oct 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**

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