The Prince of Wales once described his school in Scotland as like a 'prison sentence' and some of the people around him as 'foul' - but he would later reflect more positively on his time there and was said to have been an excellent drama student.
The Prince of Wales once described his school in Scotland as like a"prison sentence" and some of the people around him as"foul" - but he would later reflect more positively on his time there and was said to have been an excellent drama student.New pictures of Prince Charles as a teenager show him at boarding school in Scotland alongside fellow cast members for a musical production.
Charles is 13 and in his early years at Gordonstoun in images released by the school on the 60th anniversary of his first day. In a letter home in 1963, the prince described the school as like a"prison sentence" and people in his dormitory as"foul" and"horrid". He was more complimentary in a speech in 1975, recalling that the school had taught him"to accept challenges and take the initiative".He spent five years at the school near Elgin in Moray, where his brothers Prince Andrew and Prince Edward would also attend.
Prince Charles, who is now 73, was said to have done well in drama and also performed in other productions such as Shakespeare's Henry V and Macbeth.
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