Kate doesn’t want Prince George to go to Eton – and for once I agree with her | Zoe Williams

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A regular, incredibly rich couple might fight about whether or not to send their kid to boarding school because it means that the child will have to live somewhere else, and some parents dont like that..

They might, in an alternative universe where one of them was politically engaged, have had a fight about whether or not to send George to private school at all...

In fact, Kates problem with Eton college, which is Williams choice, is that its single-sex; she got horribly bullied at school, which youll have to just surrender to the gossip mill, here, a causal link hypothesised by an anonymous insider was because it was an all-girls school...

Which isnt to say that nothing good came of it my experience of an all-girls school, followed by twice as long as a trustee of a prison charity, informed a lot of my politics, including why I became a transgender ally..

If I were Georges parents, Id send him to the local Windsor comprehensive: what is private school for, anyway, except to buy your kid into a social stratum that the prince is already at the top of?.