King Charles had some of his most important early experiences in Scotland. There were family holidays at Balmoral, but it was his education at Gordonstoun in Moray that left scars he struggled to heal.
The young prince was educated at home until he was nine. Then it was prep school, where he was teased about his ears and called “fatty”.
A sensitive, thin-skinned lad, his grandmother, the Queen Mother, argued for him to be sent to Eton. It’s near Windsor and was where many of his parents’ friends chose for their sons. But the Duke of Edinburgh, who had already tried to toughen Charles up by teaching him to swim and ride, had other ideas.
