Prince Harry’s shocking verdict on George’s future school
Prince Harry was once a student at Eton College – the school Prince George will soon join.
Prince Harry made his feelings on the school clear (Image: Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Kensington Palace confirmed today that Prince William and Princess Catherine have decided to send their oldest child Prince George to Eton College. The young prince, who will soon turn 13, will board at Eton from September, when he moves up to the school from Lambrook.
While Prince William, 43, loved attending the school his oldest son is soon set to attend, it turns out this wasn’t the case for every royal. This is because William’s estranged brother Prince Harry, 41, wasn’t too keen on the prestigious establishment. This is something Harry has hinted at multiple times.
In fact, the prince even once made the shocking comment that he would rather have attended an underfunded school in South Africa instead.
As reported by The Mirror, on a royal tour of a correction centre in Cape Town in 2015, when he was still a working royal, Harry said: “I didn’t enjoy school at all.
“I would like to have come to a place like this. When I was at school I wanted to be the bad boy.”
This is not the first time Harry has made a negative comment about Eton, having also made a comment about the school in his 2023 memoir Spare.
Harry was not believed to be keen on the school (Image: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)
This next comment was about how Harry struggled to fit in at the school, even when it came to sport.
Harry said this is because the boys were separated into two groups based on what sports they liked, but the prince found that he liked a bit of everything, making it hard for him to fit into one category.
He wrote: “Sport, I decided, would be my thing at Eton.
“Sporty boys were separated into two groups: dry bobs and wet bobs. Dry bobs played cricket, football, rugby, or polo. Wet bobs rowed, sailed, or swam. I was a dry who occasionally got wet. I played every dry sport, though rugby captured my heart. Beautiful game, plus a good excuse to run into stuff very hard. Rugby let me indulge my rage. I simply didn’t feel pain the way other boys did, which made me scary on a pitch.”
While Harry and William did spend some years at Eton at the same time, it is believed the brothers hardly interacted, with Harry claiming this is what William wanted.
SOURCE: EXPRESS