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Jan 10, 2018 · The second season of The Crown gave us a closer look at Prince Charles ‘s early years —including those at Gordonstoun, the Scottish all-boy’s institution where he attended secondary school....
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- Diana Pearl
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...
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 ...
- Sally Bedell Smith
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”...
- Lauren Jack
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May 2, 2022 · Charles is 13 and in his early years at Gordonstoun in images released by the school on the 60th anniversary of his first day. In a letter home in 1963, the prince described the school as like a "prison sentence" and people in his dormitory as "foul" and "horrid".
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May 3, 2023 · What King Charles really thought of Gordonstoun – by the school’s pupils and teachers. How much did King Charles really hate his time at Gordonstoun? The phrase ‘Colditz in Kilts’ has...
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...
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