Prince George will be among a much more diverse crowd than Princess Kate if he were to attend her former school.
There have been rumours that the Prince and Princess of Wales are seriously considering sending their eldest son to Marlborough College, a £47,000 a year co-ed school. Last year, they were even seen on a private tour of the campus which is just over an hour from their home Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Estate.
Princess Kate went to the Wiltshire private school in the late 1990s but the school is now working to widen access. The school is hoping that by 2033, one in ten pupils could have a fully funded education thanks to a fundraising campaign aiming to raise £75 million over the next decade, The Telegraph has reported.
This money will fund 10 “transformational bursaries” with over £1.3million raised on the launch day, a record for any UK independent school.
A third of the children helped will be local with the rest from inner city areas. The bursary programme is a “passion project” for Marlborough College headmaster Louise Moelwyn-Hughes, who taught both Princess Kate and Princess Eugenie. She hopes to make the school a “more diverse community” and provide “life-changing opportunities”.
Prince George currently attends Lambrook School with both of his siblings, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, but will be due to leave in three years.
It has previously been thought that he would attend Eton, as his father and uncle Prince Harry did. George visited the school with his parents last year. He is expected to have already applied and been assessed for school spaces with offers to be made at the end of this term.
