Prince Harry’s educational journey was steeped in privilege from the get-go, starting at Mrs Mynors Nursery School in Notting Hill, progressing to Wetherby Prep School and then onto Ludgrove Prep School for boarding.
At just eight years old, Harry was sent to live away from home, where he received ample support from school staff, including a unique routine, according to reports in OK!
In addition to various activities and weekly treats, the younger boys at Harry’s boarding school had their hair personally washed by matrons – a memory Harry shared in his controversial 2023 memoir, Spare.
“Three times a week after dinner, the matrons would assist the youngest boys with a nightly wash,” he penned. “I can still see the long row of white baths, each with a boy reclining like a little Pharaoh, awaiting his personalised hair wash.
“For older boys who’d reached puberty, there were two tubs in a separate room, behind a yellow door. The matrons came down the row of tubs with stiff brushes, bars of floral soap. Every boy had his own towel, embossed with his school number. Mine was 116.”
Post Ludgrove, Prince Harry joined Prince William at Eton College near Windsor. His memoir offered many intriguing glimpses into his upbringing, including a reference to his time at Eton where Harry expressed his disappointment at William not wanting to spend time with him there.
In a candid interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, Prince Harry opened up about feeling personally wounded by his brother William’s words during their school days. Cooper questioned: “Your brother told you, ‘Pretend we don’t know each other’.”
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Harry responded: “Yeah, and at the time it hurt. I couldn’t make sense of it. I was like, ‘What do you mean? We’re now at the same school. Like, I haven’t seen you for ages, now we get to hang out together.’ He’s like, ‘No, no, no, when we’re at school we don’t know each other.’ And I took that personally.”
In his memoir, Harry delved into his experiences at Eton College, revealing his determination to stand out through sports. He wrote: “Sport, I decided, would be my thing at Eton.”
He described how he defied typical categorisations, saying: “Sporty boys were separated into two groups: dry bobs and wet bobs.
“Dry bobs played cricket, football, rugby, or polo. Wet bobs rowed, sailed, or swam. I was a dry who occasionally got wet. I played every dry sport, though rugby captured my heart. Beautiful game, plus a good excuse to run into stuff very hard.
“Rugby let me indulge my rage. I simply didn’t feel pain the way other boys did, which made me scary on a pitch.”
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