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School rule Prince George and Princess Charlotte were allowed to break but classmates couldn’t… full story below
want their children to be treated just like every other pupil at school – but they were previously afforded one special privilege that set them apart from their classmates.
Prior to starting at Lambrook School in 2022, Prince George and Princess Charlotte attended Thomas’s School in Battersea together. George started there in September 2017 followed by his younger sister in September 2019. It meant that the young royals were there at the time of the pandemic. Like all schools, Thomas’s had introduced a number of Covid measures to keep pupils and teachers safe and to reduce the opportunity for the virus to spread
One of the main changes was that parents were instructed to drop their children off at the front gates rather than driving into the school. However, royal expert Katie Nicholl claimed that the then-Cambridge family were exempt. Writing for Vanity Fair at the time, she said: “According to one parent, the school has installed numerous Covid prevention measures and parents now have to drop children at the school gates. The Cambridges, however, are still able to drive their children into the school grounds.”