EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Has Labour's planned VAT raid on private schools forced one of Britain's best-known royal prep schools to change its name?
Labour's assault on private education is now rubbing off on a royal seat of learning.
I hear that one of Britain's best-known prep schools is about to change its identity more than 200 years after its foundation, citing 'an increasingly uncertain world' as one of the reasons.
Eagle House, near Sandhurst in Berkshire — which recently included the Earl of Wessex, son of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, among its pupils — will be no more from the autumn.
Instead, it is to be brought under the umbrella of Wellington College, the famous public school, and will be rebranded as 'Wellington College Prep'.
The two schools are only a few miles apart and have shared a governing body since 1968, but the new move marks the end of an educational tradition going back to 1820.
Eagle House, near Sandhurst in Berkshire ill will be rebranded as 'Wellington College Prep'
It recently included the Earl of Wessex, son of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh (pictured), among its pupils
Old boys at Eagle House, which charges almost £30,000 a year in fees, have included Field Marshal Auchinleck, cult pop singer Nick Drake and Ellie Bamber, the Les Miserables star currently playing Kate Moss in a forthcoming film about the supermodel.
The school has not specifically mentioned Labour's plans for VAT on fees — which is threatening all private schools — but the management has stated: 'In an increasingly uncertain world, whatever the future holds, Wellington College and Wellington College Prep will be stronger as one, unified organisation.'
It's just the latest school affected by the uncertainty caused by Labour's expected General Election win today.
Sir Keir Starmer's planned tax raid on private education claimed its first victim in May with the closure of a school where parents faced paying thousands of pounds extra every year.
Families with children at Alton School, in Hampshire, blamed the Labour Party's tax policies for forcing parents to remove their children and place them in the state sector.
Mick mini-me's got moves like dagger!
With his tousled hair, boundless energy and snake hips, there's no doubt who seven-year-old Deveraux takes after.
The son of Sir Mick Jagger has demonstrated his impressive dancing skills in a video shared by his mother, the American former ballerina, Melanie Hamrick.
'Living,' is all Mel, 37, says online with the video, which was taken backstage at a Rolling Stones concert. She has been with Sir Mick since 2014.
The son of Sir Mick Jagger has demonstrated his impressive dancing skills in a video shared by his mother, the American former ballerina, Melanie Hamrick
Sir Mick, who turns 81 later this month, has eight children with five different women
The singer, who turns 81 later this month, has eight children with five different women. Deveraux can be heard shouting out song lyrics before he starts dancing.
Deveraux was a great-uncle at birth —courtesy of his half-sister Jade and her elder daughter, Assisi. The latter had her first child, a daughter named Ezra, two years before Deveraux was born.
Of course, Jade, 52, isn't his eldest sibling – that honour goes to Karis Jagger, born to Sir Mick's one-time lover, American singer Marsha Hunt, in 1970.
Intimacy co-ordinators are de rigueur on film shoots these days, but Kate Winslet didn't need one when she appeared in explicit scenes as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in The Reader.
'You were my intimacy co-ordinator and you made me feel at ease in those intimate scenes,' her co-star David Kross told her on stage at the Munich International Film Festival, where she received the CineMerit Award. 'You created a safe space and helped me understand the process.'
Winslet, 48, responded to Kross, 33: 'You poor boy. The things we asked him to do, sometimes it was funny. He would say things like, 'Wait, why are you putting your legs [up there].' '
Forget Taylor Swift at Wembley, here is a King-sized job for a promoter: Sandringham is searching for a 'Freelance Events Manager'.
The Royal Family's private estate in Norfolk has staged The Who, Richard Ashcroft and The Lightning Seeds among others in the past year.
'The ideal candidate will be a first-class event planner with exceptional attention to detail,' says the job advert. The successful candidate might even witness Prince William's 'dad-dancing'!
Chris Martin, who performed a triumphant set with Coldplay at Glastonbury, also helped Travis star Fran Healy rediscover his muse.
'I asked him if he wanted to go for a drive up the Pacific Coast Highway,' says Healy, who was visiting California, where Martin lives.
'So I drove up to his house and we went for a drive up the coast.
He listened to the new record with me in the car as we drove, because I was at the point that I was becoming blind to it.
'He's a sweet, sweet man, Chris.
'He was, like, 'Turn it down, man, it can't be too loud'. He's protective of his ears.
'He's very Yoda about his stuff. A purist.'
Russell Howard has signed up to perform on Virgin Voyages first comedy cruise, and he's getting increasingly nervous.
The comedian, whose television shows include Mock The Week and Russell Howard's Good News, admits: 'It's the most terrifying thing because my brain instantly goes, 'If it goes badly, then you see them at the buffet.' '
Proud queen sees her daughter graduate at Spanish Sandhurst
Queen Letizia of Spain beamed with pride yesterday as her elder daughter, Princess Leonor, graduated from the General Military Academy in Zaragoza, the country's equivalent of Sandhurst.
Queen Letizia of Spain beamed yesterday as her daughter Leonor graduated from the General Military Academy, the country's equivalent of Sandhurst
Leonor, 18, the heir to the Spanish throne, was presented with the Grand Cross of Military Merit by her father, King Felipe, at the ceremony. The princess has now completed the first part of her three-year training programme in the armed forces.
She previously attended UWC Atlantic College, the boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, known as the 'hippy Hogwarts'.