Who needs Oxford, anyway? Euan Blair is off to Bristol University, and Prince William is at St Andrews. JENNY BOOTH asks if the ancient universities are losing their glamour

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 25, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The news that Euan Blair is to read ancient history at Bristol means that the country's two most famous students - the other, of course, being Prince William - will not be studying at Oxford or Cambridge.

The centuries-old institutions may have nurtured 40 of Britain's 53 prime ministers, but today Oxford and Cambridge are no longer the places automatically attended by the children of the mighty and fashionable. Brideshead, it seems, may soon be unvisited.

Prince Charles and Prince Edward went to Cambridge, despite A- level results that these days would probably have excluded them. Back then, ...

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