Heartbroken: Carole Middleton ‘reduced to tears’ with Michael’s ‘humiliating’ remarks about…
Carole Middleton was reportedly “in tears” after her husband Michael described their son James’s £32,000-a-year education as a “waste of money,” according to a new autobiography.
James, the younger brother of Princess Kate, admitted he had to retake his Chemistry A-Level four times.
The father-of-one, who now resides in Berkshire, attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire as a boarder, where his older sisters Kate and Pippa excelled academically.
At 18, James was forced to take a gap year to retake his Chemistry A-Level multiple times, calling it a “humiliating record” for Marlborough College
After a year of resitting my A-levels, I scrape into Edinburgh University with the minimum permitted grades.”
However, James has now told The Times: “Mum and Dad just wanted the best for me.”
The outlet wrote: “Today Middleton studiously avoids criticising his school or his beloved parents — he learnt valuable survival skills at Marlborough, he tells me.”
James wrote in his memoir about seeking an escape in nature and in dogs.
He said: “I was an outcast … alienated from my classmates. But dogs never judged me.
“Mum asked repeatedly if I wanted to bring friends home to stay at weekends. But truthfully all I wanted to do was to see Tilly.”
