Memories: Prince Charles, why I was caned at school
PRINCE Charles revealed that he was caned as a young schoolboy.
The punishment was doled out, he said, by headmaster Peter Beck at Cheam preparatory
school in Surrey.
The Prince said: “He caned me once – no twice. The
hidings were for ragging – this other boy and I were always fighting.”
Charles became a Cheam pupil in 1957 and stayed there
for five years before going on to Gordonstoun.
During his second term at Cheam the Prince led Guy Fawkes
Night cheers when an effigy of Mr. Beck was burned on the school bonfire. It
was believed that young Charles had a major hand in making the figure, but
teachers refused to comment.
The grown-up prince was reminded of his former headmaster
yesterday [25 October 1974] when he met Mr. Beck’s journalist son Phillip in
Tasmania.
As published in the Daily Mirror (UK) 26 October 1974.
Picture of Prince Charles at Cheam School
credit: Royal Collection Trust
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