Princes William and Harry were stopped from doing one particular activity while they were pupils at Ludgrove School, but it was for one very good reason.

The two young royals attended the independent preparatory school for boys before they went to Eton at the age of 13, with the school being situated just 30 minutes away from Windsor Castle.

William and Harry both went there when they turned eight, as their late mother Princess Diana wanted to give them an opportunity to mix with more normal youngsters.

However at the time Diana and then-Prince Charles’s relationship was in trouble, with gossip about their marriage dominating the headlines.

The headmaster of the elite school reportedly made it his “mission” to protect the boys from the tabloids while they were under his care.

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Dickie Arbiter, the former spokesperson for the late Queen Elizabeth, later said: “Ludgrove was extremely good at protecting him and later Harry. It took them out of troubled waters.”

The headmaster at the time, Gerald Barber, banned newspapers in the library and ordered all pupils’ television viewing to be restricted and monitored.

Only educational programmes were permitted, while teachers and staff were also warned about leaving their newspapers around and their televisions on while students were nearby.

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A former pupil at Ludgrove said: “The Barbers were more than equipped to deal with the princes. William and Harry weren’t the only members of a Royal Family to attend the school and they certainly weren’t the only children to come from dysfunctional homes.”

According to the book William at 40: The Making of a Modern Monarch, by royal expert Robert Jobson, the Prince of Wales in particular was grateful for the shelter he enjoyed at Ludgrove.

He wrote: “For William, school was not only fun but a respite from his mother’s increasing tendency to lean on him as an emotional crutch.

“She [Diana] had taken to calling William ‘the man in my life,’ and he did his best to be supportive – once telling her that he wanted to be a policeman so he could protect her. But he was only 10 when his parents officially separated in 1992.”

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