THE Queen Mother pleaded against sending Prince Charles to boarding school in Scotland because she predicted he would be miserable, previously unpublished letters have revealed.
Correspondence between the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth reveal that she urged the monarch not to send Charles to Gordonstoun as he would feel "terribly cut off and lonely in the far north". His grandmother added that it would be better for the young prince to attend "staunchly Protestant" Eton rather than the inter-denominational Scots school, near Elgin in Aberdeenshire.
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