Unusual reason Prince George won’t be heading to secondary school in September

Prince George is currently enjoying a relaxing two month summer holiday from school.
But while his peers will be facing the daunting prospect of joining secondary school this September, the young prince won’t be joining them.
The 11-year-old will stay on at his current educational establishment, Lambrook School, which he attends with his younger siblings, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six.

After previously schooled in London primaries — Prince George and Princess Charlotte previously attended Thomas’s Battersea, not far from the family’s Kensington Palace home in London, while Prince Louis was enrolled in Willcocks Nursery School — the royal trio enrolled at the new school after the family relocated their home base to Windsor in 2022.

The preparatory school educates children up to age 13 and then feeds them into another school of their parents choosing
George’s parents, The Prince and Princess of Wales, are reportedly still undecided which secondary school to send their son to in 2026 when the time comes for George to leave Lambrook.

In 2023 George was seen visiting the hallowed halls of Eton College with his parents, Prince William and Kate Middleton.

The all-boys boarding school with 1,350 students and fees of £17,000 a term, is where both Prince William and Prince Harry attended as teenagers, and just a short drive from the family’s Adelaide Cottage home in Windsor.

Eton College students are between the ages of 13 and 18, and they must be registered before June 30 of the school year the boy turns 10. According to the school’s website, “After this, the only route of entry will be through scholarships or Sixth Form entry, which open in Year 8 (for Year 9 entry) and Year 11 (for Sixth Form entry).”

When Prince William enrolled at Eton College in 1995, he became the first senior royal to attend the school as his father King Charles and grandfather Prince Philip both went to Gordonstoun in Scotland.

However it has been reported that George may tread an entirely new path and follow his mother’s route and school at co-educational Marlborough College at which his brother and sister can join him.

Kate was said to have adored her time at Marlborough where her brother James Middleton and sister Pippa Matthews also were educated.

Nevertheless, there has been some concern that Marlborough is attracting a more jet-set crowd and become ‘too flashy’ after a rise in its popularity with ultra-rich families, which isn’t Kate’s style.
The princess is said to prefer understated wealth and is looking for a school that suits all of her children and keeps them grounded.

She and William are said to currently favour St Edwards or ‘Teddies’ as it’s affectionately termed, a liberal boarding school in Oxford which prioritises ‘children’s happiness’.
Kate, 42, and Prince William, 41, have visited the £47,000-a-year this year it’s been reported.

The co-educational institution, founded in 1863 by the Reverend Thomas Chamberlain, boasts an impressive alumni include Dambusters leader Guy Gibson and fellow RAF legend Douglas Bader, as well as actor Laurence Olivier and Oppenheimer star Florence Pugh.

Its website emphasises the school’s ‘spirit of inclusion’ and its ‘ethos of collaboration’. Set in 100 ‘glorious’ acres in the north of Oxford, which includes a golf course and a boat house, the school’s website explains that pupils are encouraged to look beyond exam results and focus on long-term life goals with children studying ‘Pathways and Perspective’ courses alongside their GCSEs.
The courses cover areas including Sustainability, Design, Sports Science, and the Classical World and the Sustainability course with its emphasis on the environment is likely to appeal to the Prince of Wales, who is recognised for his green causes.

Among ‘Teddies’ key objectives is to teach a range of life skills, which is why pupils must join the Combined Cadet Force choosing between the Army, Navy and Air Force Sections.

Teddies also prioritises youth mental health, another cause championed by The Prince and Princess of Wales, and hosts an annual Youth in Mind conference in partnership with Oxfordshire Mind.

The royal couple are also reported to be considering another academic establishment for their eldest child, and have listed the prestigious Oundle School among their top choices.

Oundle School in Northamptonshire, founded in 1556, with a chapel and cricket ground, boasts it shapes its pupils into ‘decent’, ‘open-minded’ and ‘ambitious’ adults – but never ‘arrogant’.
The headteacher, Sarah Kerr-Dineen, has studied at both Oxford and Cambridge, describes pupils at the school as ‘intellectually curious, energetic, resourceful.