William was the first heir to attend public nursery – Mrs Mynors’ Nursery School – in September 1985 when he was three years old. The Royal Family had previously not attended a nursery outside the confines of Buckingham Palace but it is believed that the Princess of Wales wanted to change this for the sake of her sons. Mrs Mynors’ was a Montessori school and Diana herself has been an assistant at a Montessori nursery called the Young England Kindergarten in Pimlico.
Decades later, Prince George also attended a school that uses this learning method, attending Westacre Montessori School in Norfolk.
It seems that Princess Diana may have started her own tradition of keeping royal children’s lives as normal as possible even at nursery age.
Prince Harry told an ITV documentary in 2017: “She made the decision that no matter what, despite all the difficulties of growing up in that limelight and on that royal stage, she was going to ensure that both of us had as normal a life as possible.”
However, there was still a vast difference between the mass media attention of William’s first day versus the privacy his son enjoyed in 2016.
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Prince William on his first day at nursery (Image: GETTY)
Prince William on his first day with the