Prince George’s future is causing a little bit of fuss for the Wales. Prince William and Kate Middleton are choosing a college for their eldest to attend, and the options are very interesting.
The family has been spotted touring colleges since George is about to enroll into a new school. Two of the choices included his parents’ Alma Mater: Kate’s old school Marlborough College, in Wiltshire, and Eton College which William and his brother attended.
“It’s the talk of the school, and of the parents,” a royal insider told the Daily Mail, and added that “real dilemma” for the Waleses. Despite being the Royals, Eton College dean Sir Nicholas Coleridge will not bend the rules for them or anyone. He wrote in the Spectator, “I find myself receiving a torrent of letters and emails from friends of friends, hinting that they hope I can help them secure a place for their sons or grandsons.There is a rigorous admissions system here, run with integrity, and it is awkward when the prospective boy hasn’t caught the selector’s eye.”
Prince Harry also wrote about how he loathed his time at Eton College in his memoir Spare. He recounted that his time at the school was “heaven for brilliant boys, it could thus only be purgatory for one very unbrilliant boy.”
The news comes shortly after Prince William hired his mother’s divorce lawyer after a move that shocked Buckingham Palace. William has been regularly using his father’s lawyers Harbottle & Lewis and its partner, Gerrard Tyrrell — and made the move to Mishcon de Reya, which represented Princess Diana in her divorce from Charles a year before her accidental death.”William wanted to strike out on his own,” a source tells the Daily Mail, who broke this news. “He did not want to continue using his father’s lawyers. It’s as simple as that. He wants to be his own man.”
Buckingham Palace thinks it’s “the latest example of his desire to follow a different path from that of his father.” William’s friend told the Daily Mail, saying “William wants to do things differently from his father, and wants to be seen to do them differently.”
