Britain’s Prince George is about to attend elite UK school Eton College, following in the footsteps of his father, William, the Prince of Wales and a protracted checklist of the nation’s former prime ministers.
Prince George will attend Eton College from September, Kensington Palace confirmed in an announcement to NCS on Tuesday.
Eton College, positioned in the English county of Berkshire, educates boys aged 13 to 18 and accepts round 270 college students per educational yr.
It is one in every of Britain’s most prestigious fee-paying faculties, with a notable checklist of alumni that features celebrities and 20 of the nation’s 58 prime ministers.
Among their quantity are former Conservative prime ministers Boris Johnson, who led the UK from 2019 to 2022, and David Cameron, who was in workplace from 2010 to 2016.
Other well-known Old Etonians embody actors Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston.
The school charge for the present 2025/26 yr at Eton, which is positioned in Windsor, simply west of London, is £63,298.80 (about $84,900).
Full boarding is the solely possibility for college students, which means that they research and sleep inside the school grounds.
This signifies that George, 12, will be dwelling simply 3.5 miles from the household dwelling, Forest Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.
George is the oldest of the Wales’ three kids and is second in line to the British throne. He will flip 13 in July earlier than beginning at Eton College in September.
His father Prince William attended the school from 1995, and his uncle Prince Harry did so from 1998.