QWere the royalty to school? The difficult state exams of the lower English secondary school are called GCSE. Every year they constitute a real nightmare for millions of British students, who today will know whether they have passed them or not. And like them, as young people, the real ones also had to overcome them. And despite the privilege of being able to attend the best schools in the United Kingdomnot everyone managed to successfully overcome them. The most surprising case? That of Lady Diana, who He failed miserably twice.
Real rejected at school: Lady Diana the scariest
The 16 -year -old princess underwent the exam – which in her time brought the name of O-levels – in 1977, at the college West Heath Girlsattended together with a sister in the city of Sevenoaks, east of London. Diana did not pass the tests (unlike the future sister -in -law Sarah Ferguson, who at least managed to take two home).
He tried again without success and resigned himself to leaving the school without a diploma, But the principal gave her a special prize awarded to the student who during the school year had helped the classmates more. The following year he enrolled in a Swiss private school for improvement for Signorine, who passed to full votes.
Kate Middleton passed the exam much better than Lady Diana
The current princess of Wales attended The Marlborough Collegeone of the best schools in Great Britain, located in the Wiltshire County, west of the capital. During the exam he managed to pass the tests of 11 subjects, ensuring himself The highest vote in mathematics and art. After the high school he took a year of Sabbatico, then enrolled at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, where he met William. And the rest is history (including the degree in art history).
William, the most intelligent of the royal family
According to the results of his exams, the prince heir to the throne is One of the most educated Royal Family members And frankly more intelligent. This is because, after the five years spent at the Ludgrove prep school of Berkshire, in which the first years of his adolescence passed, ensured high votes in 12 subjects. A success that allowed him to access the prestigious college of Eton without problems and then at the University of St Andrews.
Harry admits: “Too distracted by sport”
Less well went to Harry, who seems to have showed a particular predisposition to studies. More concentrated in sports (he was captain of rugby, pole and cricket teams), he also enrolled in Eton after passing – perhaps a little surprise – a total of 11 GCSE. Despite this, a few years later, Harry did not take good votes to maturity and he decided that, all in all, from spare Not destined for the throne, the university was not for him. And he went to enroll in a military academy.
Diana with children William and Harry in London, May 1995 (Getty Images)
King Carlo, a great enthusiast of books, was among the least scholars at school
Harry can boast of having done better than his father Carlo who, in the very rigid college of Gordonstoun, Scotland, where his mother Elizabeth and father Filippo had insisted on him, managed to secure only five of the old O-levels. Not bad for the then Prince of Wales who, passionate about art and literature from a very young ageThen he managed to graduate in history at the University of Cambridge.
Real rejected at school. The continuous competition between Beatrice and Eugenia
Sarah Ferguson said that as a girls the daughters, awarded the birth of the title of Princesses of York, competed to those who would have managed to bring home higher votes. And the same was in the examination time. Eugenia, the lower of the two, can however sing victory: both ended up overcoming nine GCSEincluding art and history, but Beatrice’s votes were lower compared to those received by the ambitious sister.