MORE MAGICAL PICTURES THAT’S a class act! Shy Charlotte gets a helping hand on first day at school
Mummy makes sure brother George lends a hand on princess’s first day at school
With a shy smile and a wave, Princess Charlotte joined her brother at ‘big school’ yesterday.
the normally confident four-year-old seemed a little more nervous than usual as she arrived at £6,500-a-term thomas’s Battersea in southwest London.
Accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and older brother Prince George, Charlotte wore a uniform of blue pinafore, white summer blouse, blue and red cardigan, black shoes and white socks.
She clutched her mother with both hands and peered from behind her back at the cameras. But she soon warmed up, dancing in through the school gate and giving her carefully brushed ponytail a cheeky flick.
the royals were greeted shortly after 8.15am by the head of the lower school, helen haslem.
‘First day – very excited,’ William said, when asked how his daughter was feeling. George, six, who was holding his father’s hand, cast a few protective glances in his sister’s direction and was said by sources to be ‘hugely excited’ to guide her round the school where he has been a pupil for two years.
‘George, you’ll have to show her the way,’ Kate was heard to say. William and Kate are understood to have been keen for Charlotte to join George at the school as their sometimes shy little boy has settled in so well. handily, siblings of pupils get a discount on the £19,287 annual fee, cutting the cost to £18,915.
Kate had been unable to drop George off on his first day in 2017 as she was expecting Prince Louis and suffering from severe pregnancy-related sickness, leaving William on solo ‘dad duty’.
So she was delighted to be there yesterday, looking elegant in a £215 Michael Kors dress and heels and sporting a new, noticeably blonder hair style.
‘Hugely excited to look after her’