Start of term for the Cambridges: How the royal family fared on their first days
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy From a young Prince Harry, decked out in a cap and blazer, gazing up at big brother William, to Princess Charlotte beaming with excitement, the royal family’s milestone first days at school have long been captured for the history books. William’s first experience of learning away from home was at Mrs Mynor’s Nursery School in west London, which he joined at the age of three. He arrived on his first day in 1987 in a smart grey school cap, double-breasted coat, grey shirt and red tie, and waved to onlookers, while accompanied by his mother, the Princess of Wales. As he signed the public school’s Entrance Book, his father Charles, remembering that William had signed on the wrong line, joked: “Make sure you sign it in the right place.” But a cheeky Harry retorted: “Shut up!” Future king Charles started as a day boy at Hill House School in Knightsbridge in 1956.
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