This is Cormac Garrigan – he lives opposite Prince George’s new school in a small maisonette.
Like the young royal, today was his first day at school.
But while the prince was escorted from Kensington Palace to exclusive private school Thomas’s Battersea, south west London, the three-year-old headed from the estate opposite to a local state primary.
Cormac, who turns four in April, has enrolled at High View Primary School near Clapham Junction Station and can see Thomas’s from his living room window.
Cormac Garrigan is three-years-old and lives opposite Prince George’s new school in a small maisonette in Battersea, south west London
He can see private school Thomas’s from his living room window, but enrolled at High View Primary 20 minutes away near Clapham Junction Station
While Prince George was escorted to the private school that costs £5,868 a term, the Garrigans got the bus
Cormac Garrigan (pictured far left) was taken to school on his first day by his mother Fran, 37, (right) who is an IVF nurse and accompanied by sister Aela (centre)
It is a 20-minute journey away by scooter, but today he got the bus.
To mark the emotional first day he was taken in by his mother Fran, 37, who works as an IVF nurse at a local hospital.
High View Primary was rated ‘good’ in its latest Ofsted inspection and has around 350 pupils, including Cormac’s older sister Aela, six.
Prince George was driven to the exclusive private school by his father Prince William, 35, where he was met by head of lower school Helen Haslem (pictured right)
Prince George had a ‘good’ day at his ‘nice’ school, according to his father. His mother Kate, 35, was unable to make the momentous occasion as she was in bed with morning sickness
Prince George was driven to his new school, which costs £5,868 a term, by his father Prince William, 35, and escorted to the front door.
His mother Kate, also 35, was desperate to be there on such a special occasion but was left bed-bound by morning sickness.
The young prince’s new school is a Grade II listed building, where male pupils are expected to wear periwinkle blue shirts, navy Oxford shorts, and even a white boater hat in good weather.
It is rated ‘outstanding’ by Oftsed and offers unusual classes in ‘understanding the world’, ‘communication and language’, as well as art, ballet and music.
Cormac is looking forward to starting school with his sister Aela who is already a pupil there
The youngster’s school was rated ‘good’ by Ofsted, while Thomas’s was given ‘outstanding’
Little Cormac is pictured scooting past Thomas’s Battersea, which is right opposite his house