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PRINCE Prince George has started prep school at Thomas’s Battersea, but what other establishments might have made it on to the royal shortlist? ELEANOR DOUGHTY
Dixon is the daughter of Anita Griggs, headmistress of the girls’ school, so there’s plenty of integration and a real feeling of togetherness. The boys have a dizzying 19 subjects to study, including Mandarin in Year 6, and History of Art throughout, which is a subject too rarely offered. We approve.
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n leafy Belsize Park stands The Hall, where parents must register before their son is one year old. The young chaps play rugby, football and cricket, and study Classics before whooshing off to all the best schools. It’s not just Eton, Westminster and St Paul’s for these boys, but academic schools all over town, and the rest of the country, too. Pupils at The Hall live ‘distinctive lives’, says headmaster Chris Godwin, which sounds right up a royal's street.
WHERE IS IT? Earl's Court, SW5 WHO IS IT FOR? Boys, day only, 4-11 WHO IS IN CHARGE?
Headmistress Eleanor Dixon WHAT IS THE COST? £6,480 per term fa l k n e rh o us e .c o.u k
WHERE IS IT? Hampstead, NW3 WHO IS IT FOR? Boys, day only, 4-13 WHO IS IN CHARGE?
Headmaster Chris Godwin WHAT IS THE COST? Reception and Year 1, £5,980 per term; Year 2 and above, £6,162 per term h a ll s c h o o l .c o.u k
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alkner House gives you two for one: there’s a boys’ school and a girls’ school, a mile from each other. The girls' school is long established and much-loved, while the boys' opened in September in Earl's Court. This new school operates as a co-ed from two to four, and boys only from four to 11, and it’s a real family affair. Headmistress Eleanor
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