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- The previous year he told The Observer that he was glad he went to Gordonstoun. "I didn't enjoy school as much as I might have, but that was only because I'm happier at home than anywhere else," he said. "But Gordonstoun developed my willpower and self control, helped me to discipline myself… We went in for 'adventure'.
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Apr 24, 2023 · Prince Charles became a pupil at Gordonstoun School in 1962. He was interested in the arts but less so in sports, recalling his lack of athletic ability by describing his “ignominious”...
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Sep 11, 2022 · King Charles is shown his new school at Gordonstoun by Captain Ian Tennant on 2 May 1962. The young prince joined at the age of 13. On his first day, on 1 May 1962, the then Prince Charles was...
Jan 10, 2018 · Fact versus fiction on how The Crown depicts Prince Charles's experience at Gordonstoun boarding school.
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May 3, 2023 · Prince Charles left Gordonstoun in 1967 with five O-levels in English Language, English Literature, History, Latin and French and two A-levels in History and French; he achieved above-average results which secured him a place to study archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University.
Did Prince Philip force Charles to go to Gordonstoun? Yes, and it didn't go very well. Charles had an unusual – and unhappy – education. In his early years the prince thrived as he was...
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Oct 25, 2023 · He had left when the then-Prince Charles enrolled in 1962, a moment which put the school in the headlines for the first time and which would largely determine how the public would see it. Much has been written about the prince’s time at the school.
Sep 11, 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 and...
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