LONDON - At a remote Scottish boarding school, King Charles spent his formative years developing a passion for the arts and environment, and according to one letter home a biographer quoted, dealing with bullies and wishing he could go home.was 13 when in May 1962 he began attending Gordonstoun, a private school on the north coast of Scotland where his late father Prince Philip also studied and wanted his son to go.
Novelist William Boyd, whose time at the school overlapped with King Charles, said the monarch detested his time there. In a biography to which the now king gave his blessing, Mr Jonathan Dimbleby described the royal's time there as an"incarceration".
"I am always astonished by the amount of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the careless use of ancient clichés used to describe it," he told the House of Lords in 1975."It was only tough in the sense that it demanded more of you as an individual than most other schools did - either mentally or physically. I am lucky in that I believe it taught me a great deal about myself and my own abilities and disabilities. It taught me to accept challenges and take the initiative.
"Just to be involved in the Gordonstoun production was always exciting… And then, when we discovered that Prince Charles was going to be involved too, it did make it more exciting," said retired PE teacher Alison Stockley.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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