The eldest children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, aged eight, and Princess Charlotte, aged six, returned to the classrooms this week after a few months of schooling. -or at home.
The two studies at Thomas Battersea School in south-west London, being enrolled in primary education, in the fourth grade (Prince George) and the second grade (Princess Charlotte).
Even if the press pampers them with dozens of photos, always being the center of attention and occupying the front page of many newspapers and magazines in the UK, well, at school things are not like that at all. While Prince George and Princess Charlotte are two of the most famous children in the world, they are not called and named after their royal titles at school. The two brothers are known simply as George Cambridge and Charlotte Cambridge for their friends at school, but also for their teachers, with the consent of their parents. The same thing happened with Prince William and Prince Harry.
Members of the royal family do not traditionally use the family name; they are simply known by their first name in the eyes of the public plus the noble title. The name of their home, of the noble ancestors they come from, such as Windsor, may be different from their family name, such as Mountbatten-Windsor.
A statement made by the Queen to the Council in 1960 states that the monarch’s descendants, without royal titles, will be named Mountbatten-Windsor.
When the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archie, was born in May 2019, Harry and Meghan chose not to give their son a title and therefore have the surname Mountbatten-Windsor. The same can be said for their daughter Lilibet Diana, who was born in June 2021.
Last year, in a meeting with medical staff in Northern Ireland, Prince William spoke openly about returning his children to school after closure. William confessed that he suspects that other parents are going through the same experience as him. “I think every parent breathes a sigh of relief that school has started again.” Five months – it was wonderful, but five long months passed, ‘said Prince William.
Prince Louis, the youngest child of William and Kate, who turned three in April, began nursery in April this year. Prince Louis is enrolled in Kensington’s Willcocks Nursery, near Kensington Palace.