Winston Churchill’s old boarding school Harrow partners with £60,000-a-year all-girls college Downe House

Winston Churchill’s alma mater Harrow is announcing a ‘partnership’ with an all-girls boarding school for the first time in its 450-year history.

Harrow, North London, is one of the last-remaining full boarding schools for boys but  is now joining forces with the all-girls Downe House School in Berkshire in a new ‘structural’ alliance.

The schools will retain their own leadership teams, sites, identities and traditions but will benefit from a ‘programme of joint academic, co-curricular, and social activities’.

Harrow, which charges £63,000 a year, was founded in 1572 under a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I.

It has educated seven British Prime Ministers in

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