21 September 2023 , 11:18
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Fans of the Royal Family will likely know the ins and outs of their lives - from their family history, to their relationships and right down to where members went to school.
In his younger years, King Charles previously attended Gordonstoun, a boarding school in Moray, Scotland. Charles was sent there because his father, Prince Philip, had also studied there and is said to have loved it. However, it seems his son didn't feel quite the same way about the place.
The King reportedly had a very different experience than his dad at school and was bullied by fellow students during his time there, he's even gone as far as to compare it to "Colditz in kilts" and claim that staying there was like serving a "prison sentence", as Get Reading reports.
Prince William was the first senior royal to attend Eton (UK Press via Getty Images)
Harry claimed his brother said they should 'pretend' not to know each other at school (Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)Charles' time at Gordontoun was explored in season two of Netflix's The Crown, showing him being isolated from his classmates. His homesickness has also been publicly revealed in published letters, dating back to 1964. The young prince wrote: "It's such hell here especially at night. I don't get any sleep practically at all nowadays. The people in my dormitory are foul. Goodness, they are horrid, I don't know how anyone could be so foul."
As such, when it came time for Charles' own children to attend school, it seems he decided to send them elsewhere, so it might have been for a sad reason that Prince William and Harry went to Eton College. This was a school that Charles also could have attended, but the Duke of Edinburgh is believed to have argued that it was too close to Windsor and London and therefore he wouldn't have had any privacy.
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When William was first enrolled at Eton in 1995, he became the first senior royal to attend the school in Berkshire, but it was also significant for the youngster as Princess Diana's brother and father had both gone there. Other members of the royal family have attended the school over the years including the late Queen Elizabeth's cousins, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince Michael of Kent.
Harry later went to Eton in 1998 but has since told how he was 'hurt' when his big brother reportedly said he wanted them to "pretend" they didn't know each other while they were at school. In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes programme earlier this year, Prince Harry told Anderson Cooper about his brother's savage school remark.
Cooper said: "Even when you were in the same school, in high school, your brother told you, 'Pretend we don't know each other'." To which Harry replied: "Yeah, and at the time it hurt. I couldn't make sense of it. I was like 'What do you mean? We're now at the same school'. Like 'I haven't seen you for ages, now we don't get to hang out together'. He's like, 'No, no no, when we're at school we don't know each other'. And I took that personally."
People on social media were divided over this, as some felt it was normal sibling behaviour, but others saw how harmful it could be after the pair had recently lost their mother. One person tweeted: "That made me laugh... because my daughters went to the same school and my eldest daughter would tell the younger that at school they don't know each other..... That is normal behaviour with siblings." However, someone else posted: "They were two young boys still dealing with the death of their mother. Harry just wanted to hang out with his older brother, his only family member, in boarding school. Although I don't think William's action was malicious. But he just didn't realize how much Harry needed him."