Prince William and Kate Middleton ‘delighted’ as son George is accepted to £5,653-a-term prep school — where best pals are banned
The third in line to the throne will start at the private school in September
PRINCE George is going to a top prep school which “bans” best mates.
The third in line to the throne will start at £5,653-a-term Thomas’s Battersea in South London in September.
But the three-year-old, along with the 540 other pupils at the mixed-sex day school, will be discouraged from picking a best friend.
Head Ben Thomas has said he would support a policy saying children should have “lots of good friends” instead.
He added: “You can get very possessive friendships. It is much easier if they have a wide range of good friends rather than obsessing about who their best friend is.”
A spokesman for Kate and Wills said they “are delighted to have found a school where they are confident George will have a happy and successful start to his education”.
The school focuses on arts, sport and the importance of being outdoors.
Its website says its most important rule is to “be kind”, with teaching based on “enjoyment, learning and achievement”.
Former pupils include model Cara Delevingne and singer Florence Welch.
It had been said Kate, 35, would choose Wills’s former school Wetherby pre-prep in Notting Hill, West London.
But it seems the royal couple did not want a boys-only school for George.
Thomas’s also has a kindergarten on the same site, which Princess Charlotte, 22 months, is expected to attend.
George currently goes to the £33-a-day Montessori nursery in Westacre, Norfolk, close to Wills and Kate’s Anmer Hall home.
The pair have said they are moving back to their Kensington Palace apartment — renovated with £4.5million taxpayers’ cash — so George can start school in London.
Partying Wills, 34 — blasted recently for being work-shy — is giving up his part-time helicopter pilot job with East Anglia Air Ambulance to become a full-time royal.