For Peter Phillips, the news that he has split from his long-term girlfriend Lindsay Wallace, pictured left, confirms his burden of knowing that of all Queen Elizabeth s grandchildren, he is the unluckiest in love.
We see comparatively little of him, but Peter Phillips holds the distinction of being the eldest of the late Queen Elizabeth s eight grandchildren. He has no title but is important within the Windsor family.
It might seem obvious that children of the Royal Family attend one or other of the most prestigious schools in the country. Yet until comparatively recent times, royal children did not go to school at all.