Charles and Camilla on their wedding day on April 9, 2005

The princes William and Harry (right) at Eton College

The Doon School

London, Oct. 18: Eton College and Doon School will go head to head when the Prince of Wales visits India next month with his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall.

The travelling British press corps will be told that Doon, selected for visit by Camilla, is “the Eton of India” — hence the comparison.

During a briefing at St James’s Palace yesterday, royal aides gave details of their trip to India from November 6-14, which will take in Delhi, Dehradun, Mumbai, Pune and “an elephant corridor in Kerala”.

Prince Charles will then go to Sri Lanka’s Colombo where he will represent the Queen and officially open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

In Mumbai, the royal couple will attend a dinner “with a Bollywood flavour”.

Mukesh Ambani, the Reliance group boss who is chairperson of the British Asian Trust, one of the 17 charities with which Prince Charles is involved, may have a big say in working out the guest list.

One assumes the Bachchans will be asked along with the Khans — Shah Rukh, Aamir and Salman — plus, perhaps, Saif Ali Khan and wife Kareena, Ajay Devgn and wife Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Vidya Balan, Irrfan Khan and Subhash Ghai.

Officials said the visit, the eighth official trip by Prince Charles, underlines the importance Britain attaches to relations with India. In 2010, he officiated for the Queen and inaugurated the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

This time, Prince Charles will meet the President, Prime Minister, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, politicians and captains of industry. Perhaps even Narendra Modi, who has a big Gujarati following in Blighty.

In Dehradun, the couple will visit the Indian Military Academy but more intriguing is the news that Camilla will go round to Doon School.

Doscos, as Doon School alumni are called, have had little to cheer since Rajiv Gandhi, the only Prime Minister the institution has produced, left the scene.

The visit by the Duchess will draw attention to the school that likes to project itself as “the Eton of India”.

Established in 1935, Doon School’s first headmaster was an Englishman, Arthur E. Foot, who had spent nine years as a science master at Eton College. The Doon has produced many distinguished people in public life, but a number of its students do tend to be sons of rich old boys.

Eton is one of Britain’s most academic schools, though it has educated princes William and Harry. Founded in 1440, it has produced 19 Prime Ministers, David Cameron being the latest.

So how come Camilla has chosen to visit a symbol of privilege in India?

The spokesperson said boys at the school did valuable “outreach work” with disadvantaged women and girls, some of whom will be introduced to Camilla.

He said the school’s motto — Knowledge Our Light — preached the philosophy that “the boys should leave Doon as members of an aristocracy, but it must be an aristocracy of service inspired by ideas of unselfishness, not one of privilege, wealth or position”.

Camilla will take an interest in helping victims of rape and sexual abuse. But she is unlikely to give interviews or comment on the December 16 gang rape, officials said.