King Charles Becomes Patron of His Former Scottish Secondary School

King Charles is officially the patron of his former secondary school.

On the anniversary of his coronation, the U.K. monarch accepted a patronage at the Scottish institution Gordonstoun, where King Charles attended secondary school, the BBC reports.

King Charles attended the institution from 1962 to 1967, and reportedly described his time at school as "absolute hell."

The monarch's time at the school was depicted in the hit Netflix series The Crown. In the second season, a young King Charles is seen as being instantly miserable upon his arrival—he's bullied by his former classmates, struggles to learn and adapt to the overall lifestyle of the all-boys institution and is not as physically fit as his peers.

 

King Charles is even rumored to have nicknamed the school “Colditz in kilts."

Still, the monarch has only ever spoken fondly of his time at the secondary school when discussing it in public.

“I am always astonished by the amount of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the careless use of ancient clichés used to describe it,” King Charles said in 1975 during a speech he gave at House of Lords.