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1. www.bbc.com › news › uk-scotland-north-east-orkneyGordonstoun: The Scottish school that educated a king - BBC

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   Sep 11, 2022 · On his first day, on 1 May 1962, the then Prince Charles was flown to RAF Lossiemouth in a plane piloted by his father Prince Philip, who was one of Gordonstoun's first pupils.

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2. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-scotland-north-east-orkneyGordonstoun: The Scottish school that educated a king

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   Sep 11, 2022 · Learn how King Charles III, the first British monarch to attend a school rather than private tutors, spent five years at Gordonstoun in Moray. Discover his academic and extracurricular...

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4. www.vanityfair.com › style › 2017The Lonely Heir: Inside the Isolating Boarding School Days of ...

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   Mar 28, 2017 · Among the prince’s privileges as Guardian was his own bedroom in the apartment assigned to Robert Waddell, “the quiet alter ego of Gordonstoun,” in the view of Charles’s cousin and godson ...

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5. people.com › royals › prince-charles-gordonstounWas Prince Charles's Time at Gordonstoun School Miserable?

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   Jan 10, 2018 · The Crown shows Prince Charles's time at Gordonstoun as miserable, but was it really that bad? Learn how Prince Philip sent him there, how he coped with the challenges, and how he felt...

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7. www.newsweek.com › i-was-school-king-charles-shy'I Was at School With King Charles, I Felt Sorry for Him'

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   Sep 12, 2022 · Charles said, in a 1975 speech in the House of Lords, that he was "lucky" to attend Gordonstoun, and that he was "always astonished by the amount of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the...

8. www.mirror.co.uk › news › royalsInside King Charles' 'brutal' school days - 'ears pulled by ...

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   Feb 2, 2024 · From the age of 13, King Charles attended Gordonstoun, a boarding school in the north of Scotland, where his sister Princess Anne unveiled a touching tribute to their mother the late Queen US...

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   Did King Charles go to Gordonstoun?

   • King Charles’s time at Gordonstoun has even been marked on screen, with hit Netflix series The Crown’s Paterfamilias episode depicting the young Prince’s miserable time in Scotland while highlighting his father’s altogether different experience.

   King Charles at Gordonstoun: How a Scottish school shaped the King

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   Why did Charles complain about Gordonstoun?

   • Morrah wrote in To Be a King, his 1968 book about Charles’s early life, that the school had driven the prince only “further in upon himself.” Well into his 60s, Charles continued to complain about the unhappiness he had felt at Gordonstoun. And as his cousin Pamela Hicks observed, “he can never leave anything behind him.”

   The Lonely Heir: Inside the Isolating Boarding School Days of Prince

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   How did King Charles III become a king?

   • From acting as a king while attending Gordonstoun to becoming one, there has always been a set path for King Charles III. The young prince was educated in Scotland during the 1960s at Gordonstoun School – the alma mater of his father, the late Duke of Edinburgh.

   King Charles at Gordonstoun: How a Scottish school shaped the King

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   Why did Philip send Charles to Gordonstoun?

   • In a letter to the Queen in May 1961, the Queen Mother argued that Eton would be “ideal . . . for one of his character & temperament”. She added if Charles attended Gordonstoun “he might as well be at school abroad”. But looking to toughen up his timid son, Philip decided that sending Charles to Gordonstoun would be for his own good.

   King Charles at Gordonstoun: How a Scottish school shaped the King

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10. www.scotsman.com › heritage-and-retro › heritageKing Charles at Gordonstoun: How a Scottish school shaped the ...

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    Apr 24, 2023 · Gordonstoun School was founded by a German educationalist and shaped the future king with its curriculum and activities. Learn about King Charles's time at the school, his achievements...