>>> WE HAVE MADE OUR WAY BACK UP
HERE TO OUR SPOT IN WINDSOR. WHY DID HARRY AND MEGHAN CHOOSE
THIS PLACE FOR THEIR ENGAGEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT AND TOMORROWS CEREMONY?ENT AND TOMORROWS
CEREMONY? >> OUR COLLEAGUE, WILFRED FROST,
OUR ANCHOR OF "CLOSING BELL"
WENT TO SCHOOL WITH WILLIAM AND
HARRY.
HARRY.
AND HIS FATHER WERE GOOD FRIENDS
WITH HARRYS PARENTS. >> WILFRED, THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE
MEANS A LOT TO THE GROOM.
>> IT DOES, INDEED.
IM SURE THEY PICKED WINDSOR FOR LOTS OF REASONS.KED WINDSOR FOR
LOTS OF REASONS. BUT A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH
WHERE HARRY WENT TO SCHOOL.
WINDSOR CASTLE AND THE
SURROUNDING GREAT PARK HAS
BECOME A SPECIAL PLACE FOR HARRY
AND MEGHAN.
BUT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SPECIAL
PLACE FOR HARRY.
HE OFTEN CAME TO THE CASTLE AS A CHILD.EN CAME TO THE CASTLE AS A
CHILD.
BUT IN FACT, HE SPENT EVEN MORE TIME HERE, JUST A TWO-MINUTEORE
TIME HERE, JUST A TWO-MINUTE WALK AWAY IN THE PICTURESQUE
TOWN OF ETON.
ITS A QUIETER PLACE THAN
WINDSOR, A FEW SHOPS, A POST
OFFICE AND THE MOST FAMOUS
SCHOOL IN ENGLAND.
ETON COLLEGE.
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FOUNDED IN 1440 BY KING HENRY
VI, ETON HAS HAD 19 PRIME MINISTERS, IAN FLEMING, HUGH
LAURIE AND EDDIE REDMAYNE. ITS
WHERE THE PRINCES SPENT THEIR
HIGH SCHOOL YEARS.
SEPTEMBER 1998, HARRYS FIRST
DAY AT ETON.
AND DRESSED LIKE ALL BOYS HERE
IN A TAIL COAT, WAISTCOAT AND
SCHOOL TIE.
SCHOOL TIE.
A TRADITION THAT GOES BACK TO THE 1800s WHEN IT WAS INTRODUCED
OUT OF RESPECT FOR KING GEORGE
III AFTER HIS DEATH.
IT HAS STUCK EVER SINCE.
THERES 25 HOUSES AT ETON, LIKE
THIS ONE, MANOR HOUSE.
ITS NOT ONLY WHERE YOU SLEEP
AND EAT BUT ALSO WHERE YOU MAKE
YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS.
THIS SECLUDED AND UNIQUE PLACE
MEANT THAT HARRY WAS ABLE TO
LEAD A PRETTY NORMAL LIFE FOR
HIS FIVE YEARS AT ETON.
>> THERE WAS A SERIES OF
WONDERFUL PICTURES WHERE YOU
COULD SEE PRINCE HARRY SITTING
AT HIS DESK.
ON THE DESK YOU CAN SEE THE
PICTURE OF HIS MOTHER, PRINCESS
DIANA.
DIANA.
BUT YOU CAN SEE HIS HIGH FI. IT PAINTED A PORTRAIT OF THE
SCHOOLBOY PRINCE.
SCHOOLBOY PRINCE.
AND WHAT JUMPED OUT TO EVERYBODY
IS HOW NORMAL HARRY LOOKED.
>> Reporter: DURING HIS TIME AT ETON, HARRY DEMONSTRATED TALENT
AS AN ARTIST.
BUT IT WAS IN SPORT WHERE HE
EXCELLED, IN RUGBY, SOCCER, ON
ETONS VAST LAKE ROWING.
AND HARRY WAS PARTICULARLY GOOD
AT THIS.
AT THIS.
>> SHOVING, PUSHING AND PRESSURE ARE ALLOWED, BUT STABBING,ESSURE
ARE ALLOWED, BUT STABBING, BEHEADING AND STRANGULATION ARE
OUT.
OUT.
>> Reporter: ANOTHER TRADITION, THE WAR GAME, WHICH IS PLAYEDN,
THE WAR GAME, WHICH IS PLAYED HERE.
HERE.
THE STUDENTS SCRAMBLE UP HERE TO
THE TOP OF THE WALL TO WATCH. THATS DESPITE THAT THE MOSTH.
THATS DESPITE THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF THE YEAR,
THERE HASNT BEEN A GOAL FOR 108
YEARS, WHICH MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY
NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD WANTS
TO BOTHER PLAYING.
WAR
WAR HARRYS REAL PASSION WAS THE
COMBINED CADET FORCE.
HE WON THE PARADE COMMANDER
AWARD, WHICH SET HIM UP FOR WHAT
HE DID SOON AFTER HE LEFT ETON.
HE BECAME A SOLDIER AND SERVED
IN AFGHANISTAN.
IN AFGHANISTAN. BUT IT WAS HIS FIVE YEARS HERE
IN ETON THAT REALLY MADE HARRY
FALL IN LOVE WITH WINDSOR.
>> I KNOW YOU WERENT IN THE
EXACT SAME GRADE AS WILLIAM AND
HARRY.
HARRY.
SEEMS LIKE EVERYBODY HAS TO BE SOMEBODY AT ETON.ODY HAS TO BE
SOMEBODY AT ETON. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THOSE
DAYS AND THOSE YOUNG MEN?
>> I THINK ETON DOES ATTRACT THE
SUNS OF FAMOUS FAMILIES.
HARRYS FAMILY CHIEF AMONG THEM.
AT SCHOOL, HE WASNT JUST PRINCE
HARRY, HE WAS HARRY WALES.
SAME OPPORTUNITY AS THE REST OF
US AND THAT WAS REFRESHING FOR
HIM.
HIM.
I WOULD SAY ITS A FULL-TIME BOARDING SCHOOL.A FULL-TIME
BOARDING SCHOOL.
THERES LOTS OF DOWNTIME TO FILL.S LOTS OF DOWNTIME TO
FILL.
AND HE WAS FAIRLY MISCHIEVOUS IN
THAT DOWNTIME.
1,300 BOYS IS A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT.S A COMPETITIVE
ENVIRONMENT.
THE GUYS THAT RISE TO THE TOP MAKE PALS FOR LIFE, GOOD ATOP
MAKE PALS FOR LIFE, GOOD AT SPORT.
SPORT.
AND HE DID ALL OF THAT.