The second in line to the throne will not only be following in his father Prince William’s footsteps by attending the prestigious £63,000 ($120,000) a year school, he will also be taking after his uncle Prince Harry.
However, the Duke of Sussex has long been vocal about his experience at Eton College, making numerous comments over the years hinting at his hard times at the private school in Berkshire.
During a royal tour of a correction centre in Cape Town in 2015, the royal made a candid confession about his unhappy schooling experience.
“I didn’t enjoy school at all,” The Mirror reported Harry saying at the time.
“I would like to have come to a place like this. When I was at school I wanted to be the bad boy.”
The Duke also mentioned some of the struggles he faced during his time at the prestigious school in his 2023 memoir Spare, admitting he had a hard time fitting in.
“I was in way, way over my head,” he wrote of his early days at Eton, attending the college in 1998, just one year after his mother Princess Diana passed away.
According to Harry, relations with his brother were non-existent when they were at the school, despite both boys losing their mum.
“Willy told me to pretend I didn’t know him. For the last two years, he explained, Eton had been his sanctuary. No kid brother tagging along, pestering him with questions, pushing up on his social circle.
“He was forging his own life, and he wasn’t willing to give that up.”
Speaking on 60 Minutes following the release of his memoir, Harry laid bare how his brother’s actions affected him.
“At the time, it hurt. I couldn’t make sense of it,” he told host Anderson Cooper.
A former classmate of the brothers told The Cut: “William was very integrated.”
“William was a Pop, so he was like a homecoming king-type,” they shared, adding: “I think Harry probably had it harder finding his way.”
In a separate interview recently released by Time Magazine, Harry confessed that “there’s no way I would have stayed in school” if it weren’t for the amount of sports that were offered at Eton.
“Sport held me together,” he said, adding: “I was one of those kids at school who did not enjoy classroom work.”
There has been much speculation about which school Prince George, 12, would attend once he finishes at Lambrook School next month.
The future King has been studying at the school alongside his sister Princess Charlotte, 10, and brother Prince Louis, eight.
Discussions regarding George’s schooling have long been in the works, with the Prince and Princess of Wales said to have also tossed up Malborough College, the Wiltshire boarding school that Catherine studied at between the ages of 14 and 18.
The princess was reportedly keen for her eldest son to attend the co-educational boarding school so he could be joined by his brother and sister, but her husband was at odds with the idea, wanting George to follow in his footsteps.
“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,” a source told OK!
“She and William argued about it for years, but he has finally won.”
However, George is said to have played a role in the decision because “he wants to be just like his father”.