The RAF agreed, but only after the first of his Cranwell contemporaries achieved the rank through merit.
Sounds about right, Al R - this parallels what the Royal Navy did, promoting the Prince of Wales more or less in time with the same officer who was carefully put in command of another MCMV in the same squadron as BRONINGTON,as the latter progressed up the Navy List to Rear Admiral. When I say "carefully", they chose the other guy very carefully indeed, not least by choosing someone junior to Charles as a Lieutenant so that they could say that Charles had not had preferential treatment by being given undue early command ......
Jack