Royal flushed with success

But one St Andrews graduate unlikely to end up being banned from a shopping mall for hoodie wearing is Prince William.

The prince is already being dubbed "William the Wise" by some commentators for graduating with a higher class of degree than any Royals before him.

Indeed, the then president of Magdalen College, Oxford, said Edward VIII "would never be a British Solomon". The tutor of the Duke of Clarence, who was awarded an honorary degree in 1886, said "he hardly knows the meaning of the words 'to read'".