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"Prince was helped to cheat in exam"

LONDON: Former teachers of Prince Harry at the elite British boarding school Eton College helped him cheat in his graduation art course because he was such a weak student, a tribunal was told. One teacher allegedly prepared explanatory text to go with images produced by Harry while a second helped him insert the lines into a project. The head of art at Eton also allegedly completed work for the Prince which was later published in newspapers around the world. As the prince began army officer training at Sandhurst, one of his former teachers, Sarah Forsyth, was claiming that his art exam result, which helped him get to the elite college, was flawed. Ms. Forsyth told an employment tribunal, where she is claiming unfair dismissal, that the evening before a moderator was due at the school to look at the students' course work, which counts towards their final grade, she was asked by the head of art, Ian Burke, to prepare text to go with some of Prince Harry's work for his Expressive Project, in which a pupil is required to explain some of his work and relate it to that of great artists. Ms. Forsyth said she was ``profoundly shocked.''

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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