Traditionally, children are given to the first class in 6−7 years. It happens that at five, especially if the child’s birthday falls on the first six months of the year, but at four! .. But it is at this age that Kate's mother and Dad William will sit behind the school bench of their first child. It would seem that the boy is still a year old - another to go to his innovative kindergarten, but the royal family demonstrates some severity in this matter, from which we have long lost the habit.A photo: Getty Images It is reported that the year of schooling at Thomas’s Battersea will cost the family of the prince about 18 thousand pounds (in terms of our currency - almost 1.5 million rubles). Learning the third in line for the British throne will be just a few kilometers from his native palace, reports, so he will not have to get up too early and go somewhere very far. - It is not surprising that Prince George is sent to school at the age of 4. because it’s in the centuries-old tradition of the royal family to start learning at an early age, ”explained Maryna Ayse, leading researcher at the Center for History of Historical Knowledge at the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Woman’s Day staff. - Both in the 18th and 19th centuries, children began to engage in nannies, only then did the training take place at home, so no special event was made of it.Photo:Getty Images The psychologist does not see anything critical in Prince George going to school at the age of 4. “The education will probably begin according to a “gentle” program,” suggested social worker, Gestalt therapist, and developmental (child) psychologist Anfisa Kalistratova. “And in Soviet times, our children were sent to the “zero” class, where the transition from kindergarten to school took place, so the British method is not new and has already been practiced in our country. In our country, the transition from primary to secondary school usually occurs in the 4th grade, and for the British, who send their children so early, in the sixth.