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The countdown toPrince George’s first day of school has begun!
The 5-year-old royal has just a few weeks left of summer before he returns to Thomas’s Battersea in London for the first day of school on Thursday, Sept. 6.
And unlike last year, he may have both his royal parents dropping him off for the big day.
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Upon exiting the family’s Range Rover when he arrived at school, George looked very serious (and a bit nervous!) as he greeted and shook hands with the head of Thomas’s lower school, Helen Haslem.
Ben Thomas, former headmaster of Thomas’s Battersea and now the principal across several sister schools, told reporters that George will be treated the same as every other student at the school, and hopes that he’ll feel “supported” in the school’s environment.
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A source recently told PEOPLE that the third heir in line to the throne is “very happy” at his new school, where he is known as George Cambridge.
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He’s also had plenty of royal play dates, including amemorable appearance during William’s charity polo matchalongside sisterPrincess Charlotte. And even though he loves being a big brother, he’s ready to spread his wings.
George is “very independent now and not as interested in playing with Charlotte all the time,” a source told PEOPLE. “They are close, but George likes to go off and do his own thing.”
source: people.com
