Blocked Toilets Close Eton, Boarding School for Britain's Elite Sons - The New York Times

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Flooding and a sewer backup have delayed the start of the new term. Classes at the school, which has educated princes and prime ministers, will move online.

The first prime minister of Britain, Robert Walpole, went to Eton College. So did Boris Johnson and David Cameron and more than a dozen others.

Prince William and Prince Harry went there. So did the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the novelists Henry Fielding and George Orwell, the actors Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, and the economist John Maynard Keynes.

And they all used the toilet.

But the current group of boys at the elite boarding school will not be doing so in the immediate future.

On Tuesday, Eton students did not return to school as scheduled after winter break. Flooding of the Thames had overloaded sewers and caused toilets to back up.

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