Institut Le Rosey (), commonly referred to as Le Rosey or simply Rosey, is a
private
Private or privates may refer to:
Music
* " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation''
* Private (band), a Denmark-based band
* "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorde ...
boarding school
A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...
in
Rolle
Rolle () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the seat of the district of Rolle (district), Rolle until 2006, when it became part of the district of Nyon District, N ...
, Switzerland. Founded in 1880 by Paul-Émile Carnal on the site of the 14th-century Château du Rosey in the town of Rolle in the
canton of Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
, it is among the oldest boarding schools in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious and expensive schools in the world, for which it is known as the "School of Kings".
The school also owns a campus in the
ski resort
A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports. In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area – a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system. In Nort ...
village of
Gstaad
Gstaad ( ; ) is a town in the German-speaking section of the Canton of Bern in southwestern Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Saanen and is known as a major ski resort and a popular destination amongst high society and the internati ...
in the
canton of Bern
The canton of Bern or Berne (german: Kanton Bern; rm, Chantun Berna; french: canton de Berne; it, Canton Berna) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, Bern, is also the ''de facto'' capital of Switzerland. ...
, to where the student body, faculty, and staff move during the months of January through March. In 2015, Christophe Gudin, the son of the fourth director of Le Rosey Philippe Gudin, became the fifth one. Kim Kovacevic is the headmaster.
Accreditation
Swiss
Le Rosey's (upper) secondary education (''Middle and High School'') is not approved as a
Gymnasium by the bureau for gymnasial and vocational education MBA (''Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt MBA''), administration for education (''Erziehungsdirektion''), canton of Berne, nor by the
(SERI).
International
Institut Le Rosey is fully accredited by the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the International Baccalaureate, the Ministry of National Education of France and the Council of International Schools. Le Rosey is also a member of the European Council of International Schools.
Overview
Le Rosey's philosophy is inspired by what
Harvard educationalist
Howard Gardner
Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is curr ...
has called "
multiple intelligences
The theory of multiple intelligences proposes the differentiation of human intelligence into specific modalities of intelligence, rather than defining intelligence as a single, general ability. The theory has been criticized by mainstream psycho ...
": "its aim is to develop all Roseans’ talents through academic, sporting and artistic programmes."
The school offers a demanding
bilingual and
bicultural
Biculturalism in sociology describes the co-existence, to varying degrees, of two originally distinct cultures.
Official policy recognizing, fostering, or encouraging biculturalism typically emerges in countries that have emerged from a histo ...
education with the language of instruction being French or English depending on the student's academic program; however, students may take many language classes while at Le Rosey.
Students may sit either the
International Baccalaureate
The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB Dip ...
, the most widely recognized pre-university educational program, or the
Francophone-oriented
French Baccalaureate
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ...
. To sustain an international atmosphere at Le Rosey, there exists a quota where no more than 10% of the students may come from a single country. The student body, ages 8 through 18, is composed of pupils from approximately 58 countries, with 60% of the students being European. The school's current enrollment, over 400 pupils, is equally divided between male and female. The majority of students are between the ages of 14 and 18. The
student-teacher ratio
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The term is also often used interch ...
is 5:1 with the average class size being fewer than 20 students, and the average teacher's length of stay at Le Rosey is over ten years.
Students at Le Rosey are nicknamed "Roséens" (in French) or "Roseans" (in English), and former students are labeled "Les Anciens Roséens".
The school's campus has of landscaped grounds. The school's sailing center, the "Fleur d'Eau", is situated along 100 meters of shoreline on
Lake Geneva
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. Le Rosey is reportedly the only boarding school in the world to change campuses
seasonally
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. In spring and autumn, classes are held at the Château du Rosey campus in the village of Rolle in the canton of Vaud, located between
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...
and
Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...
in southwestern Switzerland. For the winter months of January through March, the entire student body moves to a group of
chalet
A chalet (pronounced in British English; in American English usually ), also called Swiss chalet, is a type of building or house, typical of the Alpine region in Europe. It is made of wood, with a heavy, gently sloping roof and wide, well-suppo ...
s in the ski resort town of Gstaad in the
canton of Berne
The canton of Bern or Berne (german: Kanton Bern; rm, Chantun Berna; french: canton de Berne; it, Canton Berna) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, Bern, is also the ''de facto'' capital of Switzerland. ...
.
Le Rosey offers a wide range of sports, including:
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
(soccer),
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
,
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
,
cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...
,
sailing
Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cou ...
,
rowing
Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...
,
swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
, and
water skiing
Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski. The sport requires suffic ...
during the spring and autumn terms. During the winter term, sports options are
skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IO ...
,
snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ...
,
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
,
curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...
, and
snowshoeing.
History
![Lucien-brunel-henri-carnal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Lucien-brunel-henri-carnal.jpg)
Château du Rosey, a
Feudal chateau located on Le Rosey's main campus at Rolle, dates to the
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...
and houses Le Rosey's central reception area.
In 1880, the site of the Le Rosey campus was chosen by the school's founder, Paul-Emile Carnal, "a lover of nature, history and the countryside". The Le Rosey campus at Rolle is situated adjacent to the famous Lake Geneva. In 1911, the founder passed the ownership of Le Rosey to his son, Henri-Paul Carnal. In 1917, the school began to go to Gstaad in the
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
-speaking canton of Berne for the winter months to escape the dense fog that settles in on Lake Geneva.
In 1931, Lucien Brunel, a former member of the International Red Cross and former director of the school of the Grand-Lancy Castle, took on demand of M. Henri Carnal the Rosey direction until 1949. In 1947, the third generation of directors, Louis Johannot and Helen Schaub, assumed ownership of Le Rosey. Under the same ownership, in 1967 Le Rosey admitted girls for the first time and opened a separate girls' campus. In 1980, the current owners, Philippe and Anne Gudin de la Sablonnière, became the fourth generation of
Directors
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
at Le Rosey. Louis Johannot, in an interview with
Life Magazine in 1965, made a comment that received considerable attention: "The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children."
Prior to the introduction of the 10% quota, wherein no more than 10% of the student body may come from one country, different nationalities made up the majority of students at Le Rosey.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of students were
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
,
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
, or
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
; in the 1970s the majority was
Arab
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or
Iranian
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* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
; in the 1980s the majority was
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
or
Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
; and in the 1990s the majority was
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
.
During the 1990s, the children of
Russian oligarchs
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, who made up a third of the student body, gained notoriety for "terrorizing" other students, something that is disputed, resulting in the withdrawal of at least one non-Russian student.
In 2014, Le Rosey inaugurated the Paul & Henri Carnal Hall, an arts and learning centre for Le Rosey and the
La Côte
La Côte () is part of the sloping Lake Geneva () north shore, stretching from Nyon to Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Known for its vineyards, the area has views towards the high Alps across the lake.
Communes
* Mies
*Coppet
*Fo ...
region.
Academic curriculum
Institut Le Rosey's academic
curriculum
In education, a curriculum (; : curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view ...
is designed to "provide education of breadth, depth and quality for an international student body." Le Rosey offers a rigorous bilingual and bicultural education with the principal language of instruction being French or English depending on the student's academic program.
Beginning in Class 9 (US 3rd grade) and ending in Class 7 (US 5th grade), Junior students at Le Rosey follow the Primary Bilingual Programme.
The Programme follows the French national curriculum for classes taught in French and the
British national curriculum for classes taught in English, which are both complemented by the International Primary Curriculum to create an international education.
Le Rosey students in Classes 6–2 (US 6th–10th grade) choose their principal language and continue their studies in French or English.
If possible, students may study their
mother tongue
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and a third or even a fourth language in addition to their principal language of instruction. Over 20 different languages have been taught at Le Rosey in the past five years.
During the Secondary Bilingual Programme, English and French classes are obligatory, and upon entering Class 3 (US 9th grade), students begin the two-year "Pre-Bac" Programme to prepare the students for either the internationally recognized International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme or the Francophone-oriented French Baccalaureate.
At Le Rosey, the
IB Diploma Programme
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) is a two-year educational programme primarily aimed at 16-to-19-year-olds in 140 countries around the world. The programme provides an internationally accepted qualification for entry into ...
and the French Baccalaureate cover the last two years of schooling (Class 1 and Class t).
Facilities
Rolle campus
Le Rosey's main campus, near Rolle, is on adjacent to Lake Geneva. It is divided into two campuses, one for boys situated on the main campus and one for girls called La Combe. The boarding houses contain a total of 179 bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, and all together the academic buildings contain: 53 classrooms, eight science
laboratories
A laboratory (; ; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratory services are provided in a variety of settings: physici ...
, 14 specially-equipped rooms, 48 apartments for Le Rosey teachers, two
infirmaries, a library/media centre with about 20,000 to 30,000 literary and reference works, a theatre, three dining rooms and two cafeterias, an auditorium, two gymnasiums, and an
ecumenical chapel. Sports and arts facilities at Le Rosey include: ten
clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4).
Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...
Tennis court
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s, a indoor pool and wellness centre, a 25-meter outdoor pool, three
football pitch
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es, a synthetic rugby pitch, a wood chip running track, a shooting and archery range, an open-air theatre, and a computer-regulated
greenhouse
A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of Transparent ceramics, transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic condit ...
. Off-campus Le Rosey owns: a private Equestrian centre housing 30 horses, an indoor
riding school An equestrian facility is created and maintained for the purpose of accommodating, training or competing equids, especially horses. Based on their use, they may be known as a barn, stables, or riding hall and may include commercial operations descr ...
, a
Dressage area, and a clubhouse. Also off-campus is the Le Rosey sailing centre equipped with: ten
dinghies
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, three
motorboat
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Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gea ...
s, three
yawl
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As a rig, a yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with the mizzen mast p ...
s and a
yacht
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.
Gstaad campus
![Gstaad-01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Gstaad-01.jpg)
The school's winter campus, at the ski resort of Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland, is composed of several traditional chalets within the town. The girls' campus, at Schönried, is situated a 10-minute train ride away from Gstaad and is composed of five chalets used solely for boarding and dining. The students utilize local facilities, including: swimming pool, fitness centre, tennis courts, ice hockey rink, a bowling alley, curling, of
alpine ski
''Alpine Ski'' (アルパイン・スキ一) is an Alpine skiing arcade game, released by Taito in 1981. The player controls a skier, who can move left, right, or increase forward speed. The aim is to maneuver a skier through a downhill ski cour ...
slopes and of
cross-country ski
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tracks, of
snowshoe
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ing trails, climbing walls, and
Via Ferrata
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s.
Tuition fees
, the annual boarding and academic fees are CHF 125,000 (approximately US$133,000), without extra fees such as those for sports, etc. The Rosey Foundation, which oversees the financing of Le Rosey's Carnal Hall, makes
scholarship
A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education. Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need.
Scholarsh ...
s possible to "particularly deserving" students, and the four-member Rosey Scholarship Committee allots them to the approved students. However, Institut Le Rosey does not directly offer scholarships to any person, as scholarships are only made available through the Rosey Foundation.
Associations
L'Association Internationale des Anciens Roséens (AIAR), the International Association of Former Roseans, is Le Rosey's
alumni association
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, the members of which have been major contributors to 20th-century
world history
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* Human history, the history of human beings
* History of Earth, the history of planet Earth
* World history (field), a field of historical study that takes a global perspective
* ''World History'' (album), a 1998 albu ...
.
The AIAR, a prestigious network of former students, has alumni representatives in most countries and in many major cities across the world. Le Rosey's first alumni association, the "Old Rosey Association", was created on 21 July 1922 by a small group of alumni in the presence of the son of the school's founder, Henri Carnal. In 1926, the "Belgian Old Rosey Association" was founded; however, like the Old Rosey Association, it was declining due to slow international communication between alumni. The current alumni association, the AIAR, was established in 1964. The school's list of alumni is not published and access to AIAR events and meetings is exclusive to former students.
Institut Le Rosey is fully accredited by the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the
International Baccalaureate
The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB Dip ...
, the
Ministry of National Education of France and the Council of International Schools. Le Rosey is also a member of the European Council of International Schools.
Notable alumni
Institut Le Rosey has over 5,000 former students.
It has educated generations of dynastic families, including
Hohenzollern,
Cavendish
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People
* The House of Cavendish, a British aristocratic family
* Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), British poet, philosopher, and scientist
* Cavendish (author) (1831–1899), pen name of Henry Jones, English au ...
,
Rothschilds,
Koskulls,
Metternich
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s,
Borghese
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s,
Hohenlohe
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s,
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People with the name Rockefeller f ...
s, Safras,
Du Ponts and
Radziwiłłs. The school has also educated royalty and high society from around the world:
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia,
Edward, Duke of Kent, the
Muhammad Ali Dynasty of
Egypt
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, the
House of Glücksburg
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of Greece, and the
House of Savoy of Italy.
Le Rosey has educated several
monarch
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s, including the
Aga Khan IV
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,
King Albert II of Belgium
, house = Belgium
, father = Leopold III of Belgium
, mother = Astrid of Sweden
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Stuyvenberg Castle, Laeken, Brussels, Belgium
, death_date =
, death_place =
, signature = Albert II of Belgium Signa ...
,
King Baudouin I of Belgium,
King Fuad II of Egypt,
King Ntare V of Burundi, Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of
Persia
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,
Prince Rainier III of Monaco
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, Princess ''Ashi''
Euphelma Choden Wangchuck
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, Prince ''Dasho''
Ugyen Jigme Wangchuck
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of Bhutan, and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg,
Prince Guillaume,
Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt
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,
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
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, and her sisters
Pia Getty
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and
Alexandra von Fürstenberg.
Other alumni include John Lennon's son
Sean Lennon
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, the Swiss entrepreneur Eugenio Losa, rewilding advocate
Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany
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, heiress
Tatiana Santo Domingo,
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'
Julian Casablancas,
Albert Hammond Jr
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, and actress
Tracee Ellis Ross
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She is ...
.
In fiction and popular culture
In fiction, the school is most commonly mentioned in novels relating to the rich and famous, and usually takes the role of being the choice of education for different characters. Le Rosey has been mentioned in
Judith Krantz's novels ''
Princess Daisy
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'' (1980) and ''
Till We Meet Again'' (1988), as well as in several romance novels by
Karen Robards
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. The school is also mentioned in ''Master of the Game'' (1982) by Sidney Sheldon, ''
Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel'' (1975) by
Truman Capote
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, ''Any Woman's Blues'' (1990) by
Erica Jong
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, ''For Love Alone'' (1992) by
Ivana Trump
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, and ''What Became of Her'' (2002) by
Marijane Meaker
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Under the name ...
. Similarly, Le Rosey is mentioned in
Bret Easton Ellis
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' novel ''
American Psycho'' (1991), as the
alma mater of Evelyn Williams, who is the protagonist's fiancée. In the movie
Monte Carlo (2011 film)
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, the character Cordelia Winthrop-Scott, played by
Selena Gomez
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, attended Le Rosey. In a 2002 episode of ''
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'', affluent character Martha Strick, played by
Veanne Cox
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Early life
Cox was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a 1981 graduate of Manchester High School in Chesterfield, Virgin ...
, says she attended Le Rosey.
In non-fiction, alumni
Michael Korda
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Early years
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and
James Laughlin
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He was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin. Laughlin ...
have written about their experiences and memories at Le Rosey. Columnist
Taki Theodoracopulos
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Early life and education ...
has written extensively on the school and its alumni, and was in the middle of a mild controversy when in 1998 he jokingly wrote in ''
The Spectator
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It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
'' that
Osama bin Laden had attended Le Rosey.
The story resulted in an outcry from American readers, inquiries from several magazines, and the school publicly and "vehemently" denying that bin Laden had attended Le Rosey.
In 1999, American journalist
Paul Klebnikov
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wrote an
exposé
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* ''Exposed'' (1932 ...
on Le Rosey in ''
Forbes
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'' magazine detailing the problems the school was experiencing with its majority Russian student body.
Richard René Silvin released his book "I survived Swiss Boarding Schools" in 2006 and a second edition in 2018, chronicling his time at Le Rosey in the 50s and 60s.
Plans to leave Gstaad
In January 2008, Swiss economics magazine ''Bilanz'', a subsidiary of
Groupe Edipresse, published an interview with Le Rosey Director-General Philippe Gudin that revealed the school is seeking to sell its Gstaad winter campus and build a new campus in another location.
Gudin is in negotiations with the local authorities in Schönried, a suburb of Gstaad located a few minutes away, to construct a new main campus on an undeveloped piece of land, but has run into difficulties due to zoning restrictions.
Reasons for moving to a new campus, according to the Director-General, include the fact that the school's personnel, who typically live on campus, are at maximum capacity, and that the student body can no longer increase in size due to the lack of space.
Gudin stated that for the moment the new winter campus location will be in Switzerland, but he has not ruled out the
French Alps
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.
The of prime real estate that the school occupies on Ried Hill in the centre of Gstaad is estimated to be worth several hundreds of millions of
USD
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, considering the ''
International Herald Tribune
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'' reports that the price per square meter in Gstaad starts at 20,000
CHF (19,000 US$) and can rise to 45,000 CHF (43,000 US$). Gudin asserts that the high value of the Gstaad winter campus has nothing to do with its planned sale.
Controversy
In 2019, Le Rosey became involved in a legal case with billionaire parents Radhika and
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The parents allege that "the standards of the school have dropped in recent years, and it is now fast becoming just a playground for rich students to do as they please," and that it failed to protect their daughter from being "mocked and taunted" by schoolmates about her background.
See also
*
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz
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*
Ecole D'Humanité
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*
College du Leman
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*
Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil
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*
Aiglon College
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*
American School in Switzerland
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*
Institut Auf Dem Rosenberg
Institut auf dem Rosenberg (registered name: Institut auf dem Rosenberg – The Artisans of Education, often referred to as Rosenberg) is a private, international boarding school located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Established in 1889, it is one ...
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