BEST FRIENDS ARE FROWNED UPON

GEORGE will be encouraged to have a group of pals, rather than one best friend.

‘You can get very possessive friendships, and it is much easier if they share friendships and have a wide range of good friends rather than obsessing too much about who their best friend is,’ the then headmaster Ben Thomas told the Daily Telegraph in 2013.

Although Mr Thomas said at the time that there was no official policy at the school, some parents reported having been told their child should avoid having a best friend.