Prince William and Kate Middleton have proven themselves to be thoughtful people—particularly about their children Prince George, 13, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, 8.

An especially considered decision for the Prince and Princess of Wales is what schools to send their three children to, basing those decisions on “what their personalities are like,” Hello!‘s royal editor Emily Nash said on the outlet’s “A Right Royal Podcast.”

“I think what William and Catherine have done is they’ve chosen the school that is right for [George], and they’ll choose the school that’s right for each individual child,” Nash said. “This is not like a one-size-fits-all, is it?”

She added, “They know better than anyone else what [George, Charlotte, and Louis’s] personalities are like, what their interests are like, which sports are best provided for at which school. And we know they’ve done so much research.”

On September 8, George began his educational career at Eton College, an $80,000 per year prestigious all-boys’ school that counts William as an alum. The Prince and Princess of Wales were on hand last week to drop George off at Eton, where he will attend until he is 18 years old.

“It really does show that George is a smart kid, because I don’t think you get into Eton anymore just off the back of who your parents are,” Nash said—even if your parents are the Prince and Princess of Wales.

“I genuinely don’t think that, in this day and age, they could put someone into Eton and get them through in the way that may have happened in previous generations,” she continued.

A cornerstone of Kate’s royal work is early childhood development, and the princess “is on it in terms of [George’s] education,” Nash said. “I don’t think they would put him in a place where he would feel he wasn’t able to keep up.”

As William and Kate dropped George off, even amid the rain, “The three of them looked very happy,” Nash said. “They will have agonized over this choice. William will know that it’s a great place for him to go. He was very happy at Eton. It was a haven for him during that difficult period of his life, and somewhere where he made lifelong friends. So he knows how well this could work out for George.” (William attended Eton from 1995 to 2000; during his time there, his mother Princess Diana died in a Paris car crash on August 31, 1997, when William was just 15.)

As for Kate, “There’s no danger of her having sent him anywhere where he would be anything other than blissfully happy,” Nash added.

A source previously told People that George “has always wanted to follow in his dad’s footsteps,” and Queen Elizabeth’s former press secretary Ailsa Anderson told the outlet that both the Prince and Princess of Wales “carried out a lot of research to make the right decision” for him.

“They have been very careful not to pressure any of them to appear on the public stage too often,” Anderson said of the three children. “It’s been a gentle introduction to royal life, which has let Prince George build his confidence.”

Charlotte and Louis remain at Lambrook School, where George attended up until he headed off for Eton. While George went back to school last Tuesday, Charlotte and Louis headed back to the classroom the next day, on September 9. Where the younger two children of the Prince and Princess of Wales will attend secondary school is still to be determined.