Sketch of Queen Anne by a Year 4 pupil.

A Living Heritage Since 1705

The Queen Anne Royal Free C.E. First School is proud to be the youngest member of the Royal Free Foundation, a distinguished charitable foundation established in 1705 through the generosity of Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark.

Inspired by a vision that every child should have access to education, Queen Anne joined with church leader Theodore Randue and 47 Windsor benefactors to establish the Royal Free Foundation.

On 3 November 1705, they signed a historic vellum charter, creating a charity that would educate and care for Windsor's children for generations to come.

Queen Anne's generous gift enabled the purchase of local farmland, with rental income providing a permanent fund to support a free school for the children of Windsor.

The Foundation's original purpose was:

That they may read, write, cast accounts and be well instructed in the principles of religion; be furnished with Bibles or Common Prayer Books; be clothed in some sort or other; and be placed out in the world afterwards.

Today, more than 300 years later, the Royal Free Foundation continues to support our school through annual funding and the presentation of books to our youngest children and Bibles to our Year 4 pupils.

Every child who joins The Queen Anne School becomes part of a remarkable educational legacy that has served Windsor since 1705.