6/11/2023 0 Comments Gyles brandreth prince philip![]() ![]() 'It's near Balmoral,' his father told him. 'It's absolute hell,' Charles wrote home. Gordonstoun's tough, famously spartan regime was not to his liking. We quickly learnt that Charles wasn't happy at school. My godfather's son happened to be the Guardian (or head boy) at Gordonstoun when Prince Charles arrived there. With this school, we Brandreths felt we had an inside track. In September 1957, two months before his ninth birthday, Charles was despatched to his first boarding school, Cheam in Hampshire - his father's old prep school.Ĭharles later said that his first weeks at Cheam were the loneliest of his life.įive years later, in 1962, again following in his father's footsteps, Charles moved on to Gordonstoun, in the north-east of Scotland, on the Moray Firth. 'The Queen and I,' said the Duke of Edinburgh at the time, 'want Charles to go to school with other boys of his generation and learn to live with other children, and to absorb from childhood the discipline imposed by education with others.' We were both sent away to boarding school at about the same age, but while I loved mine, Charles hated his. ![]() Charles lived in a palace and was heir to the throne. ![]()
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