I’d never send my kids to single sex schools. Why would I? Look what they did to my husband…

Apparently, the Princess of Wales is considering a co-ed school for George. Go for it, says Rowan Pelling: my spouse was tied to a log and thrown in a lake where he nearly drowned at his boys’ only school. Why would anyone want that for their son?

Prince George may attend co-ed Marlborough College over all-boys Eton (PA)

When my husband and I had our first son, I laid down just one rule: under no circumstances would we send him to an all-boys school. I mean it – I’m with Princess Kate.

I love my spouse, but it’s fair to say that attending two single-sex British private schools made him the ill-adjusted, borderline misanthrope he is today – and he would be the first to agree. I often say his schooldays were like The Lord of the Flies, only worse. “Boys will be boys,” in that context, often means weird initiation rites.

My spouse was tied to a log and floated out on a school lake where he very nearly drowned. This brutal all-male ritualist shtick is still routinely seen in university “hazing” sessions – particularly student rugby clubs run by (yup) young men who went to boys’ schools.