Prince George’s former schoolmate who’s a distant Royal and has a popular actress mum
Young royal Prince George started his school days at St Thomas' Battersea alongside Maud Windsor, who is distantly related to the royals through parents Lord and Lady Frederick Windsor
When it comes to who you’re sitting next to in class, it doesn’t get much more famous than Britain’s future king.
But Prince George rubbed shoulders with another child with royal connections at his last school. St Thomas’s School in Battersea was where the 11-year-old began his school career in 2017.
And one of his former classmates was Maud Windsor – his third cousin once removed and a distant royal with a mum with very famous connections. Maud’s mum is none other than Sophie Winkleman, now Lady Frederick Windsor after marrying Lord Frederick Windsor.
Lord Frederick is King Charles’s second cousin while his father is Prince Michael of Kent. Sophie is a former actress and is perhaps most well known for playing Big Suze in Peep Show.
And if the surname is already ringing bells, she is also half-sister with TV royalty, Claudia Winkleman. The two share the same father, Barry Winkleman, who authored The Times atlas of World History, while her mum is children’s author Cindy Black.
George went to St Thomas’s from 2017 until September 2022. The private South London prep school currently costs up to £27,800 annually for children up to age 13, according to termly fees on its website, while other famous names to start their education there include Cara Delevigne and Florence Welch.
In 2022, George started at Lambrook School along with sister Princess Charlotte. The £27,000 per year school between Windsor and Bracknell in Berkshire is currently where all three Wales children go.
It’s thought the youngster could follow in his father’s footsteps and go to England’s poshest school, Eton College, next, after the family were seen scouting it out. But reports from earlier this summer claimed Prince William’s decision to send George there had not gone down well with Kate, with the couple said to have argued over the matter.
Sources claimed the Princess of Wales was left “heartbroken” by talks of Eton, as she believed it went against the Firm’s efforts to “modernise the monarchy”. Kate herself suffered from bullying while at posh boarding school Downe House and is said to be against her children also boarding and potentially experiencing the same.
