While there, he spent six months-from January to June 1977-participating in an exchange programme to Lakefield College School in Canada. In September 1973, he entered Gordonstoun, in northern Scotland, which his father and elder brother had attended before him. He was sent to Heatherdown School near Ascot in Berkshire. As with his older siblings, Andrew was looked after by a governess, who was responsible for his early education at Buckingham Palace. Prince Andrew was the first child born to a reigning monarch since the birth in 1857 of Queen Victoria's youngest child, Princess Beatrice(Andrew named his elder daughter Beatrice). He is the namesake of his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, who died 16 years before he was born.
He was baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher. Prince Andrew was born in the Belgian Suite of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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