Princess Kate Middleton gave insight into her family’s decision to leave London and move to Windsor.
“We are in Windsor at the moment,” Kate, 43, said during a conversation with soldiers from the Irish Guards at a St. Patrick’s Day parade on Monday, March 17, People reports.
“We were in London but moved there for more green space,” she added. “It’s close enough to London, not too far away.”
Kate, Prince William, and their three children — Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6 — lived in London’s Kensington Palace until the summer of 2022, when they relocated to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor Home Park, about an hour’s drive away.
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The property is a 10-minute walk to Windsor Castle, where William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, resided before her death on September 8, 2022. (The monarch died at the royal family’s holiday home in Scotland, Balmoral Castle.)
“The whole family [is] extremely excited to be moving to Windsor, not just because it will bring them closer to [Queen Elizabeth II] but it’s a perfect happy medium that brings them closer to London than if they chose to settle full time in Berkshire or Amner Hall,” a source told Us Weekly at the time.
The move coincided with George, Charlotte, and Louis’ transition to a new school, Lambrook School in Berkshire.
Meanwhile, Kensington Palace remains the couple’s administrative headquarters. It is also used as a tourist attraction and has exhibitions, including Dress Codes, a royal fashion exhibition that is being displayed until November 30, 2025.
Similarly, Buckingham Palace is also predominantly used for administrative purposes and official events such as state banquets and garden parties.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla have several properties across the U.K., including Highgrove House, where they hosted a dinner attended by Stanley Tucci and David and Victoria Beckham in February.
More recently, the Daily Mail reported on March 9 that Charles, 76, purchased a new property next door to Camilla’s country home in Wiltshire, England, over concerns that it was going to be used as a wedding venue.
Us Weekly understands that no public funding was used to purchase the private property, which overlooks the home Camilla, 77, purchased 10 years before she married Charles in 2005.
