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Eton mess: inside the battle to run Britain’s top public school

A school at war with itself

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

Speak to Tory ministers of a certain background and the question of succession soon arises. But the position they’re talking about is in Windsor, not Westminster – and it has nothing to do with skipping a generation of the monarchy. Pretty soon there will be a new Provost of Eton and, thanks to a quirk of history, it’s a Crown appointment.

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