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...banter. Prince Charles is, in fact, shy, withdrawn and, like his mother, painfully reserved. In his first week at Cambridge, he made no attempts to get to know fellow students, walked around the college grounds alone with his head down. He will probably mix eventually; after five years at Cheam, then five more at his father's old school of Gordonstoun in Scotland, he gained a good deal of self-confidence during a six-month stay at Timbertop, the roughing-it school in Australia from which he returned last year...
...rural Berkshire to London's Hospital for Sick Children whooshed a police-escorted ambulance bearing the football captain and choir leader of Britain's Cheam School: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 13. Following a post-midnight appendectomy, the robust Charles recuperated rapidly, was expected to be sprung this week from the TV-equipped private room for which the royal family, which does not take-advantage of the National Health Service, was paying...
...long-awaited report was issued that all four doctors were once again "in attendance." Finally, a little after 3:30 p.m., Prince Philip burst out of Buckingham Palace's Belgian suite, beaming. "It's a boy!" he told attendants, and then rushed to telephone Prince Charles at Cheam School...
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...