I've always juggled with this concept but never reached a conclusion because a separate education institution for royalty would still need the requirements of other schools & it would be seen as an elitist institution in some way - so may gain some dislike from common people. Funding models, physical training & systems to ground the princes & princesses enrolled in such an educational institution would need to be created. And, of course, this educational institution needs to be funded so the royals & state should naturally "foot the bill".
Personally, I feel that royals need to be in touch with the people, gain military training & a short briefing or "education" on their role as tribal leaders from a select group of elders. So, I do feel that the sons of chiefs & kings should be among common people (i. e. the people they will lead) during their school years somehow. But I suppose interaction with common people can be done during the course of daily life & not enforced upon royals as a requirement.
Public school education could present a unique problem for educators & perhaps some unwanted obsession with the school the royal is in & peer obsession during school or maybe even hatred due to having royal blood being something common people can't work towards having.
Perhaps, a separate education system for children of royalty could be established - one for males & one for females that could go from primary education right up to tertiary education where they would then join national military service. In these educational institutions they could learn the land's language, the land's laws, land's faith, the land's politics & political history, the land's history, public speaking, self-defence alongside the national school curriculum. Their chosen tertiary studies - if they wish to have further education - & military service with "commoners" would follow afterwards.
I wrote this blog entry partly because I feel many African royal houses send their youths to overseas educational institutions where they become out-of-touch with the people they are expected to lead. An indigenous educational institution for only royalty could help prevent this divide.
And I suppose that this is my idealistic blueprint of creating generation after generation of chiefs & monarchs that won't embarrass the people they lead or tribal leaders who won't go against what is required of tribal leadership.
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