After months of rumours, it’s finally been confirmed where Prince George will be going to secondary school.
George currently attends Lambrook School in Berkshire with his two younger siblings; however, the school only caters for children up to the age of 13.
The young royal turned 13 in July, and the Palace has revealed where he’ll be attending school from September.
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Where will Prince George go to school?
George will be following in Prince William’s footsteps!
The Palace has announced that George will be going to Eton College, just like his father and uncle, Prince Harry.
Princess Diana’s brother and father, the Duke of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, and Prince Michael of Kent are also Eton College alumni.
The school charges roughly £63,000 a year and is highly competitive, and focuses on academics.
It was previously reported that “certain rooms at Eton are being revamped with beefed-up security in preparation for George’s arrival later this year”.
While it is a tradition for royals to go to boarding school, it also gives young royals the chance to navigate their teenage years in a more private setting.
The news that George will be attending Eton comes after reports suggested that Prince George and his siblings could attend Marlborough College.
“That chimes with William wanting to do things in a more modern way, putting all three children in the same school,” royal author Sally Bedell Smith told People. “It’s a new direction — groundbreaking for the royal family.”
The school is a co-educational boarding college with six all-boys’ houses, six all-girls’ houses and four mixed houses. Tuition costs £59,000 a year.
According to sources which spoke to the Daily Mail, Prince George is likely to be staying at an all-boys house known as College Court, which holds 59 students and has been selected for security reasons.
“Parents have been talking about nothing else and discussions have really ramped up in recent weeks but security is obviously a massive consideration,” the insider said in 2025.
It seems that security might have been the defining factor in changing the decision.
A break from tradition
It was previously claimed Kate had her reservations about Eton College, leaving her and William reportedly “divided” over the matter.
Kate reportedly feared that if Prince George attended such a prestigious school, it would go against all recent efforts directed towards modernising the monarchy.
While Marlborough College is a different choice from where his father and grandfather were educated, the school does have royal connections, with Princess Eugenie having attended the school as a boarder.
The Sun reported, quoting In Touch Weekly, that a source has claimed the Prince and Princess have argued for “years” over the idea of sending their children to boarding school.
“Kate long disagreed with her husband about sending him away, even though it’s tradition,” the source said.
“Kate thinks sending him to such a stuffy, upper-crust institution goes against all of their efforts to modernise the monarchy. Plus, she’ll miss George desperately.
Having attended Westacre Montessori School in 2016, and Thomas’s Battersea in 2017 before moving to his current school, Lambrook School, in 2022, we all wonder where he will continue his education in the following years.
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