I never imagined
meeting someone from Eton College.
It is a place you only
hear on the news and movies. They include famous writer, Ian Fleming– creator
of James Bond- who died aged 57 in 1964. James Bond is as part of British mist,
fog, horses and rain, as is the Queen, Beatles, Spice Girls, Fish and Chips and
of course Eton. The said establishment
has on its hit list, 19 Prime Ministers – past and present.
Famous journalist and author George Orwell who wrote such masterpieces as Animal Farm and 1984, studied at Eton. Pic from Telegraph Site...
These are the chosen
few, upper class, royalty. Cost to enter Eton is in the region of £30,000 per
year; more than three times the cost of an average University annual fee, which
majority students find hard to foot; and if you heard of the 2010 student- fees
riots, you can imagine the colour of money, smell of cash. Currently many foreign students are looking elsewhere
in Asia and Latin America or just local universities to study.
Yup. Eton is something
else.
A boys’ only boarding school; it was founded
by King Henry V1 in 1440- a very long time ago, indeed. The school has been
referred to as the chief nurse of England’s statesmen, and a saying goes: “the
British Empire was built on the playing fields of Eton.”
