Prince Harry was reported to have plans to study at Yale University in Connecticut. However, official palace sources immediately denied the news after students at the university got too excited about the royal brother's desire to enroll.
The 31-year-old prince was said to have been planning to take Law to boost his academic accomplishments. But some royal watchers aren't convinced about this since they believe Prince Harry isn't particularly academically motivated and he didn't particularly enjoy school work.
The fifth in line to the British throne has a degree from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. However, this only makes him qualified to serve in the military, where he is a helicopter pilot. "That's not an academic degree. That just means you can march neatly, follow orders and polish your boots," a source allegedly told Page Six.
News of Prince Harry attending Yale had the Ivy League students buzzing, with some saying it would be a huge boost to the community. "Yale would be over the moon to get Harry as a student. Imagine the kind of fundraising they could do," the source said per Vogue.
But Kensington Palace immediately issued a denial through a spokesperson who said it's just gossip, per Evening Standard. The prince has finished his most recent tour of duty with the military recently following 10 years of service, which is why it's been reported that he's looking to do something else next.
The Daily Beast reports that as a royal, Prince Harry is "duty-bound" to serve in various charitable projects and getting a law degree would definitely take time from these commitments. As it is, his elder brother, Prince William, is already getting criticisms for not doing his royal duties full-time and has missed public appearances where the heir to the throne was expected, per E! Online.
Meanwhile, reacting to the news about Prince Harry's plans to attend Yale, British host Piers Morgan offered his unsolicited advice: "[Y]ou are a young, single man who quite reasonably enjoys the company of ladies and the odd night of partying," wrote Morgan per Daily Mail. "And that's a dangerous thing to be in an American university where the atmosphere is now so fraught and tense with political correctness that even contemplating doing anything remotely resembling 'fun' is an instant, shaming, life-ruinous thought process."
