HIS ROYAL SHYNESS
Apprehensive Prince George starts first day at £18,000-a-year school without mum to wave him off .. she’s stuck at home with morning sickness
WITH hair combed, shoes shiny and new uniform a bit too big, Prince George looks anxiously ahead as he walks between Dad and a teacher on his first day at school.
Prince William, 35, did the first school run alone as his pregnant wife Kate, 35, had to miss her son’s big moment due to morning sickness.
With Mum absent, four-year-old George gripped his father’s hand as they arrived at £6000-a-term Thomas’s Battersea at 8.50am.
William held George’s backpack as the young prince shook hands with Helen Haslem, head of the lower school.
Then, with dad holding one hand and Ms Haslem the other, George walked inside to meet his new classmates. Ben Thomas, who was headmaster of the school for 18 years, said: “There won’t be any special treatment for Prince George.
“What his parents would like for him, as any parent would like for their child, is that they have a wonderful, fulfilling, private childhood in a place that’s secure.”
The prince, who was four in July, is one of the youngest in a class of 21 and will be known as George Cambridge.
Kate and William will try to do the school run as often as possible and Kate was devastated to miss the first day.
A Royal source said: “She would have done anything to be here. It’s a big day in her son’s life but she really has been very sick.”