My son at Eton writes to tell me that bodyguards are now being provided for Eton boys at the weekends. The headmaster, Mr. Michael McCrum, has employed a security firm to protect his pupils after complaints from worried parents about a series of attacks by local guttersnipes. The bodyguards are, of course, drawn from the poorer classes themselves, so now Etonians will be treated to the diverting spectacle of the lower orders bashing each other up at every street corner while they saunter past into a carefree, protected future. The whole purpose of an Eton education is to prepare boys for such a world.
Auberon Waugh, Diary, 1973-09-26.
