Those suggesting that Prince George should be sent to a state grammar school are assuming that he would get into one, effectively conceding that the offspring of the right families had always been guaranteed a place. Perhaps he would have passed the 11 plus, but how do you know?
And those wondering why the Royal Family was sending the future King to Eton when the old aristocracy had long since been priced out of it in favour of the global superclass, you have answered your own question. Indeed, although Prince George does also come off the old aristocracy through the Queen Mother and through the sometime Princess Diana, the Royal Family itself is the last great bastion of a European superclass that barely noticed national borders.
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