Prince George has started at Eton with his hair making the first impression.
Photos of Prince George starting at Eton college have appeared alongside photos of his father, Prince William, doing the same at that age. The comparison offers a neat visual link between the two beginnings, though their hairstyles are doing most of the talking.
Prince William started at Eton in 1995. On his first day there, he had what the account describes as the “floppy posh fringe,” a hairstyle with a restrained, inherited sort of confidence. Prince George, by contrast, has hair standing up on its own.
“Look, his hair’s standing up on its own,” a friend said. It is a concise assessment, and one that gives the new Eton arrival a stronger silhouette than his father managed at the same age.
The author, Emma Brockes, adds: “I reckon he might keep it.” That leaves Prince George’s hair with a possible future beyond the first photographs, although the available facts establish only that it has brio now.
Prince George is the son of William and Catherine, the Prince and Princess of Wales. William is the father of Prince George, and both father and son have now started at Eton college.
The photographs place those two moments together: William at Eton in 1995, and George at Eton now. The family connection is clear, but the hairstyles create the real contrast—one floppy and posh, the other standing upright with a mind of its own.
That contrast gives the images their force without requiring much explanation. Prince William’s first-day look belongs to the era of the floppy posh fringe; Prince George arrives with hair that refuses to lie flat for the occasion.
There is also a small shift in the visual language of the family. William’s image presents the father at the age George has reached, while George’s image shows the son beginning the same Eton chapter under the name of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The detail may sound minor, but it is the detail that survives the comparison. Eton provides the setting, the family provides the continuity, and Prince George’s hair supplies the brio.
Photos can make inherited resemblance easy to spot. They can also expose the parts that do not pass neatly from one generation to the next, such as a hairstyle that stands up on its own instead of settling into a floppy posh fringe.
For now, the established sequence is simple: Prince William started at Eton in 1995, and Prince George has started there after him. William had the floppy posh fringe; George has hair with such brio that even a friend felt compelled to point out its independence.
Whether Prince George keeps it remains the author’s prediction, not a confirmed outcome. But the first Eton photographs have already fixed the comparison: father and son at the same college, separated by time and united by a family resemblance that stops at the hair.
