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- His education at the independent boarding school, in Moray, was a significant departure from the royal norm. He was the first Prince of Wales to be educated at a school rather than by private tutors. And his accession to the throne makes Gordonstoun the first senior school to educate a British monarch.
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Sep 11, 2022 · His education at the independent boarding school, in Moray, was a significant departure from the royal norm. He was the first Prince of Wales to be educated at a school rather than by...
Despite preconceptions that Gordonstoun was one of Britain's stricter boarding schools; Woodcock's documentary depicted a compassionate and liberal institution led at that time by the headteacher Mark Pyper.
Apr 24, 2023 · While on a school sailing trip to the Isle of Lewis in 1963, Prince Charles and a group of boys were taken to a pub at Stornoway Harbour where he ordered a cherry brandy.
- Lauren Jack
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Sep 10, 2022 · Charles, the new British monarch, was 13 when in May 1962 he began attending Gordonstoun, a private school on the north coast of Scotland where his late father Prince Philip had also studied...
Mar 28, 2017 · Hahn, who was Jewish, fled to Britain after Hitler came to power. He established Gordonstoun in 1934, with Prince Philip among the first students. The school’s motto: “There is more in you.”
- Sally Bedell Smith
Sep 13, 2022 · When King Charles III was a young boy, the royal family took the unique step of sending him to Gordonstoun Boarding School in Elgin, Scotland instead of enlisting private tutors.
Gordonstoun is also the birthplace of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards, the Outward Bound movement, and was one of the first boarding schools to admit girls alongside boys. The school then had some of the first female firefighters in the UK.
