This is how much it costs to get the same education as the royal family
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The royal family has access to some of the best education in the world.
While Queen Elizabeth II was tutored privately at home growing up, things have changed since then and now almost every member of the royal family has attended school.
However, it won't come cheap — Prince Harry and William's former boarding school, Eton College, costs $53,074 per year to attend.
On the other side of the pond, Meghan Markle's family spent $17,650 per year for her to attend Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles.
Here's how much it costs to get the same education as the royal family.
Princes William and Harry attended Eton College, a boarding school for boys, which costs $53,074 per year.
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The £40,668-a-year school was ranked ninth place out of 100 independent private schools in the UK by Exam Papers Plus.
The list was compiled by comparing the GCSE results from each school.
However, the school came under scrutiny in 2005 after a former teacher said she helped Prince Harry cheat in his A-level art class because he was a "weak student."
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Both Prince Harry and the school denied the claims.
Kate Middleton, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie's families spent £37,815 ($49,357) each year for them to attend Marlborough College.
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According to its website, the co-ed boarding school "is a welcoming community where ambition and scholarship are highly valued, creativity is celebrated, diversity is embraced and where each pupil is encouraged and challenged to be the best that they can be."
Kate and William graduated from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where they met.
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The pair met at their student residence, St. Salvator's Hall, where Middleton said she "went bright red and scuttled off" during their first conversation.
Tuition fees for the university were at an average of $30,780 (£21,228) in 2019. Although that's less than the cost of the high schools they attended, it doesn't include living expenses.
Meghan Markle attended Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, which costs $17,650 per year to attend.
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Markle graduated from the all-girls Catholic school in 1999.
The duchess sent an apology letter to her former classmates last year after missing her 20-year school reunion. The royal gave birth to her first son, Archie, the day after the reunion, according to The Sun.
She went on to study at Northwestern University, where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in theatre and international studies.
Among her accomplishments at the university, Markle served as chair of recruitment at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and completed an internship at the US embassy in Buenos Aires.
The university charges $54,120 per year in tuition fees and $16,626 for room and board, according to College Simply.
However, Queen Elizabeth didn't attend school.
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The then-Princess Elizabeth was home-schooled by private tutors. She was taught reading, writing, French, piano, dancing, and constitutional history and law, Cheat Sheet reports.
However, it is not known how much the family paid for these tutors.
Prince Philip studied at Gordonstoun boarding school in Scotland, which costs £29,850 ($38,921) to attend.
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The Duke of Edinburgh's sons, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward also attended the school.
However, the Queen and Prince Philip's only daughter Princess Anne attended Benenden School instead.
Today, Benenden is more expensive to attend than Gordonstoun, costing pupils £37,950 ($49,524) per year to attend, according to Exam Papers Plus.
The younger generation, Princess Charlotte and Prince George, attend Thomas's Battersea, a $23,000-a-year school that teaches morning yoga.
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The Good Schools Guide describes the private school as a "big, busy, slightly chaotic school for cosmopolitan parents who want their children to have the best English education money can buy."
The Christian school teaches various specialist subjects — including morning yoga — to children aged 4 to 13.
Prince George has been attending since 2017, and Charlotte joined him there last September.
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