Taxpayers had to fork out £1.5million to help send children of top Army officers to private schools last year.
A total of £668,000 of public money alone was dished out to Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s old school Millfield in Somerset – which already rakes in £42million a year from rich parents.
Eton College, which has fees of £44,094, collected £172,000 of Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) cash, while Prince Charles’s school Gordonstoun, in Elgin, gathered £98,000.
