Best Schools - Princess Charlotte to join brother George at Thomas's Battersea school

Princess Charlotte will join her brother Prince George at Thomas's Battersea school in September this year, Kensington Palace says.

The school's headmaster, Simon O'Malley, said: "We are delighted that The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have decided that Princess Charlotte will join her elder brother, Prince George, at Thomas's Battersea.

"We greatly look forward to welcoming her and all of our new pupils to the school in September."

Charlotte's older brother, Prince George, joined the independent school in south London in 2017.

Thomas's Battersea teaches 560 pupils between the ages of four and 13 and says that its most important school rule is to "be kind".

Change of structure at King’s College School, Wimbledon

King’s College School has announced that it is changing the structure of its junior and senior schools.

The junior school has, for many years, taught boys aged 7 to 13. These boys would then join the senior school at 13. The decision means that boys in the junior school will, from 2021, move across to the senior school at the start of year 7, not at the start of year 9 as has historically been the case. The new structure is one shared by almost all day schools in the UK.

King’s already has a lower school that takes an entry of about 60 boys from local primary and prep schools at the age of eleven, and these will be joined, from September 2021, by their peers from the junior school, creating an expanded lower school of about 280 boys aged eleven to thirteen in years 7 and 8. King’s will continue to accept about thirty boys every year from prep schools at the age of 13, so the 13+ entry remains a key feature of the school’s admissions.