Prince George is switching schools, and hopefully taking his
enormous backpack with him. According to the Kensington Palace Twitter
account, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge confirmed that Prince George
will attend Thomas’s Battersea School in London, enrolling in September
2017. This announcement seems to solidify the news that his parents will
be leaving their country home to relocate to London, so hopefully
those Kensington Palace renovations are done soon. Last night Kate
Middleton met a few parents from the school at the Portrait Gallery and
told them, “See you at the school gates,” proving once again how much of
a hands-on parent she is. Surprisingly, the choice of schools is a bit
controversial, ...
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Last week, the royal family zigged where the British press expected it to zag as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced that Prince George would be attending Thomas’s Battersea when he begins school this fall instead of Wetherby. You see, Thomas’s Battersea (which really sounds like the name of a The Decemberists song more than anything else) is about a 30-minute drive from Kensington Palace, whereas Wetherby is close to the palace and also where Prince William and Prince Harry were enrolled when they were George’s age. Wetherby—and the parents of children who were set to attend that school—were, it’s safe to say, blindsided by the decision.
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And little did we realize at the time that the effects of the decision were going to be felt across the pond, too. Per a Richard Johnson Page Six report, “some Upper East Side parents are feeling burned” by Kate and William’s choice in George’s schooling. The reason? New York's Wetherby-Pembridge School, a satellite of Wetherby, is opening this fall, in “a Beaux Arts mansion off Central Park,” and, Johnson reports, “it was widely assumed,” when New York parents applied for their toddlers to enter the school, “that some royalty would be rubbing off on them from across the pond.”
It makes sense. Imagine how chic it would sound to be able to drawl at a dinner party, “Oh, yes, Antigone attends [in a whisper] Wetherby-Pembridge—you may have heard it—it’s the same school Prince George attends in London.”
“Huh? The . . . same school?”
“Oh, yeah, it’s the New York outpost. So, you know, George and Antigone are basically classmates [prolonged laugher]. I guess you could say I’m . . . basically Kate Middleton!”
“Right, basically.”
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Last week, the royal family zigged where the British press expected it to zag as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced that Prince George would be attending Thomas’s Battersea when he begins school this fall instead of Wetherby. You see, Thomas’s Battersea (which really sounds like the name of a The Decemberists song more than anything else) is about a 30-minute drive from Kensington Palace, whereas Wetherby is close to the palace and also where Prince William and Prince Harry were enrolled when they were George’s age. Wetherby—and the parents of children who were set to attend that school—were, it’s safe to say, blindsided by the decision.
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And little did we realize at the time that the effects of the decision were going to be felt across the pond, too. Per a Richard Johnson Page Six report, “some Upper East Side parents are feeling burned” by Kate and William’s choice in George’s schooling. The reason? New York's Wetherby-Pembridge School, a satellite of Wetherby, is opening this fall, in “a Beaux Arts mansion off Central Park,” and, Johnson reports, “it was widely assumed,” when New York parents applied for their toddlers to enter the school, “that some royalty would be rubbing off on them from across the pond.”
It makes sense. Imagine how chic it would sound to be able to drawl at a dinner party, “Oh, yes, Antigone attends [in a whisper] Wetherby-Pembridge—you may have heard it—it’s the same school Prince George attends in London.”
“Huh? The . . . same school?”
“Oh, yeah, it’s the New York outpost. So, you know, George and Antigone are basically classmates [prolonged laugher]. I guess you could say I’m . . . basically Kate Middleton!”
“Right, basically.”
This story originally appeared on Vanity Fair.
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