Hello, I’m a newbie delurking. This thread is hilarious - you all make me laugh!
Yes, it was definitely a planned thing that Harry was to stay at Ludgrove an extra year and I’d thought always thought it just seemed like struggling with his mother’s death was later given as the excuse. It’s clearly just because there was no way he’d pass the Eton exams, or maybe he tried and flunked badly and they kept it quiet. I know C & D were told not to send him to Eton but they did anyway. Maybe the head was giving that advice after Take 1 of the exams failed?
The other gap in Harry’s life I’ve always wondered about was post A levels once he’d scraped them in 2003. You finish the school year around May ish. And then he didn’t enrol in Sandhurst until May 2005. I know he was supposedly having a year out but that’s two years. Does anyone know what made that gap take an extra year? Was he just bumming about?
Yes, it was definitely a planned thing that Harry was to stay at Ludgrove an extra year and I’d thought always thought it just seemed like struggling with his mother’s death was later given as the excuse. It’s clearly just because there was no way he’d pass the Eton exams, or maybe he tried and flunked badly and they kept it quiet. I know C & D were told not to send him to Eton but they did anyway. Maybe the head was giving that advice after Take 1 of the exams failed?
The other gap in Harry’s life I’ve always wondered about was post A levels once he’d scraped them in 2003. You finish the school year around May ish. And then he didn’t enrol in Sandhurst until May 2005. I know he was supposedly having a year out but that’s two years. Does anyone know what made that gap take an extra year? Was he just bumming about?