Few of its readers can afford to send their offspring to Eton – and many must now be wondering if the school did the nation such a favour by producing David Cameron and Boris Johnson – but, for all that, the Daily Mail gave the school a big plug over the weekend.
“Is George heading for Eton – like his father and uncle?” the paper asked, adding that it had heard that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were “eyeing up” the Berkshire school. Sending their children here would, the paper added, show that they were putting them “front and centre of everything they do”.
The two sons of Paul Dacre, the paper’s editor-in-chief, were educated at Eton, and the Mail seldom, if ever, passes up an opportunity to write fawningly about the place.
