
George, Prince of Wales, has officially become the latest member of the Royal Family to pledge his allegiance to Eton College.
The elite school, where parents fork out more than £65,000 a year for the privilege of private education, counts 20 British prime ministers as alumni, including David Cameron and Boris Johnson.
Famous faces included authors Ian Fleming and Percy Shelley, and actors Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, and Eddie Redmayne. Explorer Bear Grylls also attended Eton College.
13-year-old George also follows in the footsteps of his father and heir to the British throne, William, Prince of Wales, and his uncle, Harry, Duke of Sussex.
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It’s presumed that, like other Eton College boys, the young royal will live in one of 25 on-site houses. He will either go to the Bekynton canteen to get his meals or take advantage of the ‘in-house’ kitchen run by campus chefs.

There’s also the opportunity to go to Tudor’s, a café apparently open to the boys in the afternoons, as per The Times
And when he’s old enough, he’ll likely move into Block C to focus on the first year of his Sixth Form studies. He’ll move into Block B for his final year at Eton College.
Boys who live in these blocks are apparently able to access an uber-secret on-campus pub known as the Tap.
The Tap pub at Eton College
Phin Hubbard, a former Eton College pupil, wrote that the school pub allows boys to order two pints of beer or cider, three times a week.
He claimed that the cheapest pint of lager currently available is Brixton’s Colharbour at £4.10.
It’ll be three years until the Prince of Wales is allowed to even enter the doors of the Tap—and who knows what the price will be by the time he reaches the legal drinking age.

Unfortunately, not much is known about the elusive drinking hole.
In 2003, The Times described the pub for senior boys as ‘having a stabilising influence, as it discourages pupils from visiting local pubs’.
At the time, the publication reported that problems involving alcohol at Eton were ‘rare’.
However, in 1995, two students were allegedly disciplined for breaking into Windsor Castle while the Queen was in residence, after drinking in the Tap, according to former Sun reporter Jamie Pyatt.
“They had triggered the alarm at Windsor Castle, police reacted quite correctly, armed officers had tackled them,” he once told The Guardian.
“It was dark, late at night, and there could have been a tragedy. They were given a ticking-off and sent back to Eton for no doubt an interview with the headmaster in the morning,” Pyatt alleged.

Tom Sykes, a royal expert who was once expelled from Eton, previously revealed in his What Did I Do Last Night? memoir that the Tap was open from 4 to 6.10pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays when he was at school.
Apparently this was so ‘the boys could get back to their boardinghouses in time for quiet hour’.
Sykes described the ‘quiet hour’ as a study period that started at 6.15pm every night and lasted till dinner at 7:30pm.
On Saturday, senior boys could head down for a pint between 4pm and 6pm, while prefects were allowed in from 8pm to 10.15pm.
“Although the school pub seemed happy enough to serve me until I fell over, I knew I would be in big trouble if I actually did fall over,” he added.
Expert weighs in on Prince George’s enrolment

Melanie Sanderson, managing editor of the Good Schools Guide, said that Eton College is a no-brainer when it comes to educating the future King of England.
She told Hello! Magazine that Eton ‘very much delivers on the global stage’, remarking that he will probably be ‘rubbing shoulders with the children of the great and the good from all around the world’.
"He's going to be head of the Church of England one day. Chapel is less of a central feature at a lot of schools than it used to be, but it's still a central part of Eton. William was confirmed at Eton and I would expect George to go down the same path,” she continued.
"For me, it was always the obvious choice. It would have been my top pick as an educational consultant."
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