he who is writing a book

Don't know if anyone will know the answer to this specific question but I can;t find it on t'interweb.

Ok so I am writing a story set in World War 2 London.... 1940. Now the two main charcaters are young boys... one the son of an exiled Russian Aristo Lady (exiled after the Rev) who's dad is dead. This boy was born in Uk though.

The second is the son of an American diplomant working in London. Now I waant these two to be friends (perhaps drawn together through a sense of being outsiders) but don;t know if it is plausible that they go to the same school together. Were these diplomats kids home schooled or something?

Could I make i so that the diplomat dad insists he go to a regular school (when I say regular I'm probably talking fee paying)...

Any help = much appreciated

DesertPilot

Situations vary, depending on the security situation, national customs, the quality of the schools, and the tendency of their students to resort to cannibalism -- well, perhaps I'm wrong about the cannibalism. In general, I believe there would be an Embassy school, which might be run by several embassies working together. This was the experience of friends of mine whose families were in diplomatic service in the Middle East a generation ago. But in a friendly nation that spoke the same language, a child could quite plausibly go to a local school, particularly if these were good and their parents wanted them to experience the local culture. Also, it was not unheard of for locals to send their children to an Embassy school if this seemed to offer some advantages and they had the right connections.

Pedro

London School of Economics might be worth checking out for your time period. I believe that John Kennedy attended.

fledse

Situation vary as Desertpilot says. But, most of American diplomats' son or daughter usually go into American school in that nation since Americans are populated in lots of places.

Such as Japan, Germany, Korea, and Italy, I think Americans go to its own foundation school since there are also sons and daughters of military staffs too.

But, if it were China or Russia, I think they usually go to International school, where Chinese or Russian high class send its own sons.

laxdoc

during ww2 US dip families(most) were sent back to the US. After ww2 when US had bases in England there were American schools on the bases and a US high school near London.
If the us dip was a tech expert who had been station for a long time in London and had married a local then his family could have remained in England. Remember that London childern were sent out in to the country side during the bombings.