Prince William and Duchess Catherine could break with royal tradition by choosing a mixed school for Prince George.
The royal couple – who also have two-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte – are said to be weighing up whether to send the four-year-old youngster to a co-educational private school rather than just a boys-only school when he leaves Thomas’s Battersea, south-west London, aged 11.
A source told The Sunday Times newspaper: "The word on the street is that his parents want co-education and boarding when he leaves prep school."
George could follow in the footsteps of a number of pupils who left his current school this summer after more went to mixed than boys-only schools.
Marlborough College – where Catherine attended – is thought to be an option, as is Brighton College, where five Thomas’s leavers went this year.
Richard Cairns, headmaster of Brighton College, said: "It would be ground-breaking for the royal family but is in tune with the feelings of most modern parents, who feel increasingly strongly that segregating their sons from their daughters is unnatural and not obvious preparation for a world where women and men are equal partners at work."
While five Thomas’s leavers went to Brighton, only two opted for Eton, where George’s father William and uncle Prince Harry attended.
Last month, William revealed George had settled into school life "easily".
He said: "It’s been an interesting week.
"George has been really easy. He hasn’t said, ‘Have I got to do this for the rest of my life?’"
Prince George to break single-sex school royal tradition?
