GB News was brought to a halt for a major update on the Royal Family live from Ascot racecourse. Royal correspondent Cameron Walker was live at the scene as Kensington Palace released a short statement on the future of Prince George – one that could end up costing British taxpayers more money than they expected.
Walker said on the programme: “We’ve had some breaking news in the last few moments from Kensington Palace, regarding our future king, Prince George of Wales, the oldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The short statement from Kensington Palace reads: ‘Kensington Palace can confirm that Prince George will attend Eton College in September.’ That news just coming in from the royal household in the last few moments.”
“So that confirmation just coming in from Kensington Palace – £63,000 a year it costs, to send a child to Eton College.
“Prince George will, I understand, be boarding for that entire time, because Eton College does not allow day pupils or weekly pupils, so he will be boarding.
“We know because Prince William kind of said it a couple of weeks ago during a radio interview, that George is occasionally boarding at his current school of Lambrick, but this is going to be full termly boarding, so he’s not going to be home for a good six, seven weeks. He’ll go home for half term.”
He went on to say, however: “The only question mark there is, is about security and the cost of security to British taxpayers.
“Of course, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, two boys, one girl – Eton College only accepts male pupils, which means Charlotte has to go somewhere else when she is 13 years old and goes to senior school.
“Which means that the police have to decide a level of protection that Eton College is going to get, as well as whatever school the Prince and Princess of Wales decide to send Charlotte to. Is that going to be an extra cost for the British taxpayer, because the Prince and Princess have decided not to send George to a co-educational school?”
