Word: cheam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Prince Charles, after two weeks of quarantine at Cheam School, bounded home for the Easter holidays, Queen Elizabeth noted a royal flush. Doctors decreed bed and isolation from the rest of the family until Bonnie Charlie recovers from a princely case of chickenpox...
Although custom-tutored in privacy, Britain's royal Windsors have traditionally-like W. S. Gilbert's House of Peers -"made no pretense to intellectual eminence or scholarship sublime." Drawing down his term's end report from Cheam School, Charles, Prince of Wales, first heir to the throne to attend preparatory boarding school, showed an ambiguous relationship to the family tradition. With a 70, the prince led his 20-member class in geography. "In French," said a Cheam teacher, "he made excellent progress," i.e., 52; but "he did not do so well in maths...
...last week, nine-year-old Prince Charles of England accidentally tripped over a classmate's toes in a soccer match at Cheam School outside of London. Cried the injured party: "Hey, Fatty, get off my foot!" A husky lad, His Royal Highness squared off and began throwing punches. It was all rather humiliating; but a few days later Charles got a name that sounded a good deal nicer than mean old Fatty...
...weeks passed, however, Philip learned to like not only Mr. Taylor but everything else about Cheam. He thrived on its cold baths, slept soundly on its rock-hard mattresses, took his canings like any other boy, and distinguished himself on its playing fields as a first-class athlete. Last month, when the time came to start their own son's period of formal education, Elizabeth and Philip together delivered eight-year-old Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, into the care of Cheam-the first heir to the British throne ever to go away to school like a commoner...
...Nazi Ha-Ha. But the school that stamps an Englishman for life is not his ''preparatory" school but his "public" school. Philip's was Gordonstoun, a school as young and experimental as Cheam is old and tradition-encrusted. Its founder, a strong-minded German schoolmaster named Kurt Hahn, believed that education should provide "the moral equivalent of war" by facing boys with plenty of hard work, physical danger and a rugged regimen. Philip, whose four sisters had all married German princes, was originally entered at a similar school Hahn had founded in Germany, but his tendency...