King Charles III hasn't even been crowned yet, but his name is already etched on the walls of Hill House School in London.
hasn't even been crowned yet, but his name is already etched on the walls of Hill House School in London.
Charles, the first U.K. monarch to be educated outside the palace walls, began his school career at Hill House, although he spent less than a year there before moving on to Cheam, an elite boarding school in the countryside west of London. Hill House, a family-run primary school in London's tony Knightsbridge neighborhood is just a stone's throw from the luxury department store Harrods and a short drive from Buckingham Palace.
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, made a "leap of faith" when they enrolled Charles at Hill House because until then royal children had been educated by tutors, Townend said. The walls are plastered with huge wooden plaques engraved with the names of head boys and girls and winners of contests. Old wooden skis and a racing oar frame the door to the music room. An Olympic flag hangs in the entryway, a souvenir of Townend's father's work on the 1948 London Games.
"This was his great passion," he said. "He wanted to have this international school in which all the children would mix with each other and understand that though children are different, they are all basically the same, they're all similar, and in this way build a more peaceful world."When the school choir, which includes children from Azerbaijan, Japan and Finland as well as Britain, was asked to sing the patriotic hymn "Jerusalem," the kids belted it out.
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