According to inside sources, the Princess of Wales’s former school, Marlborough College, has been chosen for her three children.
After months of speculation, they say the election is so likely that discussion has even centered on where 11-year-old Prince George, who would be the first of the trio to attend, will stay.
A source at the £59,000-a-year Wiltshire school told The Mail on Sunday it had focused on which of the schools on the 286-acre site could be allocated to Prince George.
Marlborough has six all-boys houses, six all-girls houses and four co-ed houses, many of them dotted around the school campus or in the nearby fashionable market town of Marlborough.
Sources say House C1, an all-boys house for 59 students in the heart of the school in what is known as the
College Court, has been reserved for Prince George for security reasons.
The Princess of Wales’s former school, Marlborough College, has been chosen for her three children (pictured together last year), according to inside sources.
Kate Middleton playing hockey with her sister Pippa Middleton (left) at Marlborough College
Marlborough has six all-boys houses, six all-girls houses and four co-ed houses.
The well-informed insider said: “The parents haven’t been talking about anything else and the discussions have really escalated in recent weeks, but safety is obviously a huge consideration.” Prince George will have to stay in an “inner house”: these are the houses around the main school yard.
“The ‘outer houses’ are scattered along Bath Road, and present a greater safety risk as they are large houses in their own right and involve a lot more walking, which is the disadvantage of Marlborough.”
House C1 has a real story. It was once the home of the Seymour family, who moved to nearby Wolf Hall, the inspiration for Hilary Mantel’s books. Lady Jane Seymour was the third wife of King Henry VIII.
The school’s alumni include poets Siegfried Sassoon and John Betjeman and, more recently, comedian Jack Whitehall and Princess Eugenie.