The Cambridge family is on the cusp of an exciting new chapter. After living for almost a decade in Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace, Kate and William are leaving London and moving their brood into Adelaide Cottage in Berkshire, just a brisk 10-minute walk from Windsor Castle, where the Queen is now permanently based. On August 22, the Palace announced that the couple’s three children, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and four-year-old Prince Louis, will all attend Lambrook School from the start of the new term in September.
It won’t be the first time that Lambrook—which was founded in 1860 and is situated in more than 50 acres of Berkshire countryside—has played host to royalty. In the 19th century the school was attended by Prince Christian Victor and Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, both grandsons of Queen Victoria, who used to travel by carriage from Windsor Castle to the school to watch the boys’ plays and cricket games.
More than a century on, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be making the short drive from Adelaide Cottage to cheer on their children at the school, where pupils enjoy golf (Lambrook has a nine-hole golf course), lacrosse, badminton and basketball, as well as more traditional British school sports like rugby, soccer, hockey and netball. Prince George is a soccer fan—like his dad, George supports Aston Villa—who joined Kate and William in the stands at Wembley last summer to watch England take on Italy in the Euro 2020 final. Princess Charlotte also threw her support behind the Lionesses ahead of their historic win over Germany last month. Their little brother Louis, meanwhile, could be seen clutching a cricket ball in photographs taken by Kate to mark his fourth birthday earlier this year.
Charlotte is also musically inclined—her mum revealed she’s taking piano lessons during a family outing to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this year, and Prince William has said his daughter “loves dancing.” She’ll be well catered to at Lambrook, which is home to a dedicated Performing Arts Centre. The school also has a 25-strong chapel choir that performs for the public in venues including Eton College Chapel, Prince William’s alma mater.
Extra-curricular activities aside, Lambrook’s academic program—which incorporates Latin and Greek as well as core subjects—is robust, and there is a well-trodden path from the prep school to Eton, on the other side of the Thames, along with other prestigious senior schools such as Charterhouse, Marlborough (where the Duchess of Cambridge was a pupil), and Harrow.
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