{"id":480636,"date":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480636\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","slug":"like-father-like-son-prince-george-to-attend-eton-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480636\/","title":{"rendered":"Like father, like son: Prince George to attend Eton College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">George\u2019s grandfather, King Charles, went to Gordonstoun, a school in the Scottish Highlands attended by the King\u2019s father, the late Duke of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">It is not known if George will board at Eton, with the college only a few kilometres from his family\u2019s Forest Lodge home in Windsor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">However, the young prince has been boarding at the Lambrook School, a private preparatory school in Berkshire, where he has studied since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">He has attended there alongside his siblings, Princess Charlotte, 11, and 8-year-old Prince Louis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Eton, long a byword for elitism and the class divide in Britain, was founded by King Henry VI in 1440.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">It educates boys aged 13 to 18, and has preserved many of its traditions, including a distinct uniform comprising a black tailcoat, black waistcoat, white shirt and bow tie, and striped trousers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">It welcomes nearly 1350 pupils each year, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George\u2019s grandfather, King Charles, went to Gordonstoun, a school in the Scottish Highlands attended by the King\u2019s father,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19103,12784,156,241710,2209,5504,57511,71,12856,62034,13840,111,139,69,13235,4940,1136,4062,8037,22639,149348,61,1533,10744],"class_list":["post-480636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-attend","tag-college","tag-entertainment","tag-eton","tag-father","tag-following","tag-footsteps","tag-from","tag-george","tag-heir","tag-like","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prestigious","tag-prince","tag-private","tag-school","tag-september","tag-son","tag-throne","tag-to","tag-will","tag-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}