Word: gordonstouners
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...name during World War I). In 1933 Philip went to a German school at Salem, near the Lake of Constance. Every time he saw a Nazi salute he laughed; his nervous German relatives sent him back to the Mountbattens in London. Philip never learned Greek or Danish, and at Gordonstoun, a public school near Elgin, Scotland, he became thoroughly British...
...Pray, Sir," Said the Prince. Unlike tradition-bound Eton and Harrow, Gordonstoun, established in 1934 in a castle on the cliff-girt coast of Morayshire, bristled with progressive education. There, aristocratic young Britons were taught to forget class distinctions and live like hemen. Every morning before breakfast they took long hikes, climbed hills or practiced javelin-throwing...