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    Le Rosey, located in Switzerland, is considered the most expensive boarding school in the world with annual tuition of £80,000 or approximately $133,000. It has traditionally educated European royalty and nobility but is now recruiting British students for the first time in an attempt to attract more European students. While still enrolling wealthy students from around the world, the school aims to maintain academic standards and not be defined solely by student wealth, though the lavish campus and facilities clearly cater to the ultra-rich. The exclusive alumni network produces lifelong connections between graduates of this elite institution.

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    Le Rosey, located in Switzerland, is considered the most expensive boarding school in the world with annual tuition of £80,000 or approximately $133,000. It has traditionally educated European royalty and nobility but is now recruiting British students for the first time in an attempt to attract more European students. While still enrolling wealthy students from around the world, the school aims to maintain academic standards and not be defined solely by student wealth, though the lavish campus and facilities clearly cater to the ultra-rich. The exclusive alumni network produces lifelong connections between graduates of this elite institution.

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    Le Rosey, located in Switzerland, is considered the most expensive boarding school in the world with annual tuition of £80,000 or approximately $133,000. It has traditionally educated European royalty and nobility but is now recruiting British students for the first time in an attempt to attract more European students. While still enrolling wealthy students from around the world, the school aims to maintain academic standards and not be defined solely by student wealth, though the lavish campus and facilities clearly cater to the ultra-rich. The exclusive alumni network produces lifelong connections between graduates of this elite institution.

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    Le Rosey, located in Switzerland, is considered the most expensive boarding school in the world with annual tuition of £80,000 or approximately $133,000. It has traditionally educated European royalty and nobility but is now recruiting British students for the first time in an attempt to attract more European students. While still enrolling wealthy students from around the world, the school aims to maintain academic standards and not be defined solely by student wealth, though the lavish campus and facilities clearly cater to the ultra-rich. The exclusive alumni network produces lifelong connections between graduates of this elite institution.

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    The document discusses Le Rosey, the most expensive boarding school in the world located in Switzerland. It costs £80,000/year and caters to the children of the global ultra-wealthy elite.

    Notable alumni include royal figures like the last Shah of Iran and Prince Rainier of Monaco. Others include the children of wealthy families like the Rockefellers and Rothschilds.

    Le Rosey has extensive facilities like a 1,000-seat concert hall, equestrian center, 38-foot yacht, and an on-campus spa. It also offers skiing in the winter terms.

    Inside the most expensive boarding school in the

    world
    Le Rosey, the 80,000-a-year Swiss Institute, is attempting to attract British students

    Le Rosey school in Geneva


    By Harry Mount-26 Jan 2015
    It is known as the school of kings, counting among its alumni the Shah of Iran, Prince
    Rainier of Monaco and King Farouk of Egypt. Its catchment area was once the
    glittering palaces that housed the grandest families on the Continent: the Metternichs,
    the Borgheses and the Hohenlohes.
    But Institut Le Rosey is now spreading its net to humble old Britain. For the first time in
    its 135-year history, the prestigious Swiss boarding school has been recruiting giltedged pupils, aged seven to 18, in London.
    Co-educational since 1967, it is keen to claim a slice of a market hitherto dominated
    by British boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow.
    But at 80,000 a year - more than twice their fees - the most expensive school in the
    world will hardly be cherry-picking the brightest and best middle-class British pupils.
    Their parents find British school fees steep enough already.

    London, however, has become the city of choice for the worlds richest parents so is
    also home to the worlds richest kids. And it is they who formed the target audience for
    Le Roseys recruitment drive last week, held at the citys Swiss Embassy.
    There has long been a tiny British contingent at the school, making up five per cent of
    its 400 pupils. Its intake hails from 63 countries, with no more than 10% of its students
    coming from any one country, to prevent a single nationality dominating.
    Sir Roger Moore and Elizabeth Taylor sent their children there. John Lennons son
    Sean studied there too, as did the Duke of Kent and Winston Spencer Churchill,
    grandson of the wartime Prime Minister.

    A science class at Le Rosey (Alamy)

    But the days when it served an inter-continental upper-class elite are long gone.
    Le Rosey was different in the 1950s when I first came here, says Taki
    Theodoracopulos, the Spectator columnist who lives in Gstaad, home to one of Le
    Roseys two campuses. Then all the kids were upper-class - Rainier and the Shah
    were looked down upon. It was mostly American. Then the Italians and the French
    came. And then, in the 1970s, the Arabs arrived.
    As the international mega-rich pour in, the school is losing its Euro-Anglo-American
    founding ethos.
    Thats why theyre recruiting the British, says Taki, whose son attended the school.
    They want to get some Europeans, and the odd token Briton and American, but they
    cant admit it.
    Some of that British sheen is supplied by Michael Gray, Le Roseys British
    headmaster, educated at a Liverpool grammar school.
    Otherwise, the school is not only in another country, it might as well be on another
    planet as far as most people are concerned.

    Institut Le Rosey Gstaad winter campus (Getty)

    The winter term is spent in Gstaad, with lessons finishing by lunchtime so the children
    can hit the slopes for the afternoon. In spring, they head to the schools Chteau du
    Rosey campus nestled on the site of a Gothic, 14th-century chteau in the village of
    Rolle on the shores of Lake Geneva.
    The privately-owned institution is astonishingly well-equipped, with a shooting range,
    1,000-seat concert hall and an equestrian centre boasting 30 horses. Few other
    schools have their own 38-foot yacht on Lake Geneva, let alone a spa for stressed-out
    pupils to unwind in at the end of the long school day. Classes are in French and
    English, in a system called la carte bilingualism. The teacher-pupil ratio is an
    enviable 1:5.
    But for those who can afford the fees, perhaps none of this seems out of the ordinary.
    Seeing a helicopter land on the football pitches with a Russian pupil stepping out with
    his parents, I was somewhat shocked at the in-your-face parades of wealth, says
    Annabel, 25, who worked as a housemasters au pair at Le Rosey in 2008. It is very
    different to a British boarding school - it is run like a business. One pupil had 'I AM
    RICH planted across his jumper. I felt the boys definitely wanted to prove their wealth
    in a more crass way than the girl pupils.
    Yet the school is at pains to deny that money is a divisive issue among its students.
    No one goes around, saying 'Im richer than you, Gray told the Times, Its
    completely unsnobbish. If people put on airs and graces they wouldnt survive.

    Only those who can expect to get into university are offered a place (Alamy)

    The school is also keen to stress its not just for those who have money but no brains.
    All the pupils sit official external examinations - the International Baccalaureate (IB) or
    the French baccalaurat. Only those who can expect to get into university are offered
    a place . And only one in three applicants is accepted.
    Its certainly not academic, says Taki, But the school does do its best to improve the
    kids. My son was happy there - and they are polite. My wife was going up in the ski lift
    the other day with three Le Rosey kids. One was Russian, one American, one Arab.
    They couldnt have been nicer or more polite.
    Unsurprisingly, this rarefied elite ends up forming close bonds.
    I saw a lot of relationships, says Annabel, who now works in advertising in Australia.
    Many of the boarding students were renting out pretty expensive hotel rooms in
    Gstaad for the weekend, where they could get up to mischief without adult or teacher
    supervision.
    Go to Le Rosey - or, even better, marry another Ancien Rosen, as Old Roseans are
    called - and youre set up for life. Theres an Anciens Rosens alumni programme and
    a strictly private directory that lets you network with other super-rich old boys and girls.
    With that exclusive alumni network, along with the schools fabulous settings and eyewatering fees, its hard not to agree with F Scott Fitzgerald: the very rich are different
    from you and me. And they start being very different at a very young age.

    Inside The Elite Swiss Boarding School Where The World's


    Most Powerful People Send Their Kids

    JULIE ZEVELOFF AND MATTHEW KASSEL-APR. 9, 2013

    Many of the world's most wealthy and powerful people were


    educated in Switzerland's famed boarding schools, and have sent their children to
    those same institutions.
    North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un supposedly attended the International School in
    Bern; Danish royalty were sent to Collge Alpin International Beau Soleil.
    But no Swiss institution is as prestigious, expensive, or well-connected as Institut Le
    Rosey, located near Rolle.
    The school, founded in 1880, is considered to be the world's most expensive private

    school, with annual tuition (including boarding) around $133,000.


    Its alumni network is astounding: Former students include the last Shah of Iran, the
    Aga Khan, King Albert II of Belgium, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Dodi Al-Fayed, and the
    children of the royal families of Egypt, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and Britain, according
    to Forbes. The offspring of the American dynasties like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers,
    and du Ponts also attended.
    Hvard M. Ottestad has provided us with some pictures of Le Rosey; click through to
    see the campus and find out more about the school.

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