Both Charles and Andrew were sent to Gordonstoun, a tough boarding school on the remote, windswept north coast of Scotland that their father, , had been to. For Charles, it was another attempt to toughen him up so that he would be fit to be heir to the throne.There, the sensitive youth would have to endure freezing temperatures. The classrooms were unheated and, in the belief that fresh air was good for you, the dormitory windows were left wide open while the boys slept, winter and summer.Charles was assigned to Windmill Lodge, a long, narrow, stone-and-timber building with an asbestos roof and bare wooden floors. It was a temporary building supplied by the which had never been replaced. There were 14 hard wooden beds to a dorm and bare lightbulbs hung from the ceiling.
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