Princess of Wales' College

Princess of Wales' College is a girls' school in Sri Lanka, situated in Moratuwa, a suburb of Colombo.

Princess of Wales' College was founded in 1876 by Sir Charles Henry de Soysa who was a famous 19th-century Sri Lankan philanthropist.

By the end of the 19th century, only a few schools in Sri Lanka offered higher education and most of them were limited to Colombo.

In 1984 the College won a Competition held for Colombo Schools, and was awarded a gold Medal for its Project, “A Study of the Lunawa Lagoon”.

1985 saw the first sponsored walk held in the open in Sri Lanka, which started from Pirivena road, Mount Lavinia, up to the Moratuwa clock Tower and back to the college.

Special permission had to be obtained from the Education Minister to enable the one hundred participants, mainly school children to be allowed to walk on the Galle Road.

The Proceeds from the sponsored walk were used to secure the new building with doors and windows and make it functional to conduct classes.