EDUCATING A PRINCESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22621, 8 January 1937, Page 3

EDUCATING A PRINCESS

PLANS FOR ELIZABETH PRIVATE INSTRUCTION Princess Elizabeth ("Lillibot," at home), is fast growing up, and because of her importance in the line of succession to the Throne, special attention is being given to her education, states an overseas journal. It has been decided, for many reasons, not to send the Princess to school. The rumour that she was to attend St. Andrew's School, in Scotland, was quite without basis, for it was practically an instruction from the late King George to the Duke of York that she should be privately instructed at home by competent governesses. There are many things which a possible Queen Elizabeth would have to learn which are not included in any school curriculum, and the Princess must be educated as a potential Queen. In consultation with leading educationists the King has carefully planned his daughter's education. Stories that he is not sending her to school because of jealousy that might be aroused at other schools have been discountenanced. Subjects in which Princess Elizabeth will be coached include Latin, history and, later, constitutional and economic; history and theory. Plenty of provision for sport has been provided and later she will bo sent ou a long Empire tour. Her geography lessons Princess Elizabeth will not find so interesting as those which her favourite "Uncle David" had been in the habit of teaching her.