Philip s DIY growing up kit : Royal Family praise prince for transforming the lives of millions of young people after founding the Duke of Edinburgh s award scheme in 1956
Royal Family pays tribute to Prince Philip s work in setting up the Duke of Edinburgh s Award in Twitter tribute
Philip launched Award 65 years ago after being inspired by the Moray Badge while at Gordonstoun School
Scheme has now spread to more than 140 countries with 6.7million people having participated in it in Britain
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MailOnline reports that Gordonstoun, a leading independent boarding school in Scotland, had originally released the historic reports with permission from Buckingham Palace in anticipation of his birthday in June this year, when the late royal would have turned 100. The report cards date back to 1947, when the school’s headmaster was asked to write a record of Philip’s school career a few weeks ahead of his engagement to the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, in 1947. The notes cover the years 1934 to 1939, at which point Philip left the school to embark on his career at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
The Duke of Edinburgh s old boarding school has released his report cards which reveal he was naughty, but never nasty .
The report from the £40,000-per-year Gordonstoun in Moray was written for the Duke s marriage to The Queen in 1947.
Headmaster Kurt Hahn s notes also reveal a comical incident when the young prince nearly knocked over a young woman with a pram - but his apology was irresistible .
The school has educated three generations of the UK Royal Family - including Prince Philip, who joined at the age of 13.
Gordonstoun - which featured in Netflix s hit series The Crown - was founded by Dr Hahn, who fled Nazi Germany and became an inspiring mentor to Philip.
THE death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will have saddened many people across Scotland, a country he knew well and dearly loved. In many ways it was Scotland that formed him. Following a disrupted childhood he was educated at Schule Schloss Salem in Germany from 1933, but after only two terms he moved to Scotland, following the Schule’s Jewish founder Kurt Hahn, who had fled Nazi Germany and founded Gordonstoun School – its original name was the British Salem School of Gordonstoun – near Duffus in Moray. Philip arrived at Gordonstoun School in 1934, and Hahn became a lifelong mentor. The School in those days prized physical and sporting attributes as well as intellectual achievements – Hahn believed in a rounded education for teenagers, and himself taught history and ancient Greek. He also encouraged his pupils in drama – the Duke once starred in a school production of The Scottish Play, as actors call Macbeth.
Updated: April 9, 2021, 6:46 pm
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It was one of the most far-sighted plans ever devised by any member of the Royal Family.
Indeed, when Prince Philip established the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme in 1956, he could surely never have envisaged the success of the initiative all over the world.
The awards, which recognise adolescents and young adults for completing a series of self-improvement exercises, have now expanded to 144 countries.