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Rebecca English

Royal Editor at the Daily Mail covering the British Royal Family; journalist since 1999, royal correspondent since 2004

Sep 29, 2026

8:56
Roll the clip.
8:57
Today we are on the grounds of Eton College and as you can see it's raining in typical British fashion.
9:03
We've had days of glorious sunshine but one day Prince George arrives at Eton, the heavens open.
9:10
Just moments ago we saw Prince George walk through the quadrangle at Eton College with his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales.
9:17
He was wearing a smart blazer and tie with chinos and suede shoes like all F blockers, nine-year pupils.
9:26
He arrived in his own clothes before changing into Eaton's very familiar traditional uniform.
9:32
He was greeted by Headmaster Simon Henderson and Provost Nicholas Coleridge who welcomed him to the school and said they hoped he enjoyed his time here but the conversation was fairly brief understandably because of the weather and they encouraged him to get inside out of the rain at which point we could see Catherine putting a reassuring arm on her son's back as any mother would do on his first day at school in front of the cameras, such a big occasion for them.

23 MINS LATER

32:31
And when it comes to timing, there is this sort of hint that this statement has been rushed out And that's rushing a statement out is not something we're really used to when we talk about the palace, is it?
16:18
So who was there yesterday? I mean, how, how f-- how far does the attendance cascade down?
16:23
It was a really big turnout yesterday.
16:25
There were some new faces, actually.
16:26
So we had the King and the Queen obviously leading the charge.
16:28
We had the Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children, who are obviously always a massively popular draw for the crowds.
16:36
We had Princess Anne, her husband.
16:38
Interestingly, we had Peter Phillips, her son, his fiancée, Harriet Sperling.
18:35
Um, I mean, he'll be getting a lot of advice from his courtiers about how to react to any potential Donald Trump incident, won't he?

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