£9m lottery jackpot...for two brothers from £25,000-a-year Harrow

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But now Harrow School can boast another distinction - it has produced two lottery millionaires.

Two brothers from the elite public school are believed to have won £9 million on the Euro Millions lottery earlier this month.

They are both over 16, the legal age for buying a ticket.

But school rules ban gambling within the grounds and in term time and there are no lottery tickets available in newsagents in nearby Harrow-onthe-Hill, North-West London.

Last night, the 435-year-old school was keen to distance itself from the multi-million-pound winning ticket, although there was some confusion about whether the boys were current pupils or had left within the past 18 months.

But while the school was trying to keep the boys' good fortune under wraps, a source admitted: "Everyone's talking about it. These guys have suddenly become the most popular guys in school."

Fees for the 800-pupil boys' boarding school are £24,825 a year.

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Elite Harrow School

The Latin motto which refers to fortune

Yet the source said both brothers have been besieged by requests to invest in various business and money-making schemes.

The boys may be well advised to abide by the school's mottos of donorum dei dispensatio fidelis, meaning "the good stewardship of God's gifts" and stet fortuna domus, which means "let the fortune of the house stand".

Headmaster Barnaby Lenon was away for half term but Communications Manager Kirsty Shanahan said: "If they bought a lottery ticket at half term it must have been under the parents' jurisdiction not ours, there is no involvement."

Later she said: "We have nothing to say about it. They are Old Harrovians. They are past pupils - one left last year and one the year before."

Farmer and philanthropist John Lyon set up the school by Royal charter in 1572.

The grounds cover 430 acres and the school was used as one of the settings for Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

Former pupils include Sir Winston Churchill.

Lottery organiser Camelot would not comment on the winners.