James Middleton hits out at school on Kate and Prince William’s shortlist for Prince George

James Middleton has criticised the boarding school Marlborough.

He was educated at the prestigious school as was his sister the Princess of Wales.

The school is on Kate and William’s shortlist for Prince George’s next school along with Eton where the Prince of Wales attended.

James said regarding Marlborough: “Perhaps my criticism was that it was too focused on what one would call success, or being the best, or the top.

James Middleton
James Middleton has criticised the boarding school Marlborough.PA
“So it’s all about the best grades, the top of the class, the top teams.”

However, James also said that Marlborough was a “fantastic” school and he was lucky to have gone there.

James said there were eight different teams in all of the sports played at Marlborough but that it was “only really the first teams that ever got spoken about.”

“I was never in the first teams. My sisters were, and they did very well and it worked fantastically for them in how they operated.

But for me, it wasn’t like that. I was dragging at the bottom.

“It was a shame, in a way, that some of the things that I found challenging in my life were not picked up then.

“Because I think that could have gone on to help me manage myself, my own expectations, a bit further down the line, so perhaps not allow me to go where I went to because I would have felt more accepted, not felt like perhaps a failure.”

Prince George and his parents visited Marlborough College in 2023.

If George does go to Marlborough he will come across one of his mother’s former teachers.

Louise Moelwyn-Hughes, 53, a Latin and classics teacher who taught Kate when she was studying for her GCSEs is now the head of the school.

Sending George to a co-educational school would allow William and Kate’s other children Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis to join their brother.

The three young royals all currently attend Lambrook, a co-educational day prep school.