As Queen Elizabeth completely moved out of Buckingham Palace, her property of practically 70 years, Prince William and Kate Middleton are indicating goodbye to their longtime home, too.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are relocating from London’s Kensington Palace into Adelaide Cottage, a home at Windsor Household Park estate in the royal town of Windsor — only a 10-minute walk to the Queen’s new permanent home.
The Queen has because designed her weekend retreat at Windsor Castle her primary address as Buckingham Palace undergoes a extensive-expression renovation.
Adelaide Cottage was the couple’s to start with preference when on the lookout for a everlasting home to settle with their 3 younger youngsters — George, 8, Charlotte, 7, and Louis, 4.


There was Frogmore Home to consider, where by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle lived for a quick time, but the pair thought the renovations would charge also substantially to make it a household residence, according to The Sunlight.
“Finding a way to make Adelaide Cottage do the job appears to be to be the very best and only choice,” a source advised the publication. “There are concerns with all the other homes, so Adelaide will be the preferred.”
The property is produced up of both of those Adelaide Cottage and Adelaide Lodge, and is conceivably the most aesthetically pleasing home on the royal estate.
The 4-bedroom residence is a “grace and favor” house, this means the Queen is totally free to bestow it on whom she wishes.



A person noteworthy prior inhabitant integrated King George VI’s equerry, Peter Townsend, whose unwell-fated partnership with Princess Margaret in the ’40s and ’50s manufactured waves in the state at the time.
Created in 1831 for King William IV’s wife, Queen Adelaide, the home is nestled at the heart of the Crown Estate’s non-public 655-acre royal park, and includes the lodge — a crimson brick double-fronted establish complete with towering chimney stacks and pitched 2nd-story dormer windows, and the primary cottage design — and a stucco-fronted cottage.
The unique porch still stands nowadays, as properly as its bordering manicured gardens, which continue to be just about untouched in almost 200 years.
Now, other attributes extra on to the home involve a gravel driveway, a red brick outbuilding and a gatehouse for a little stability depth.


“Daddy and I walked throughout the Residence Park to tea at Adelaide Cottage, which the [the Queen Mother] has lent Jackie and Joan Philipps for the period of the war,” Alathea Fitzalan Howard, a shut mate of Princess Elizabeth (now the Queen) and Margaret as women, recollects in her diaries. “I was charmed with it. It typically represents that strategy of a little planet within a globe of its personal, which is so characteristic of Windsor Castle and its surroundings.”
Created by architect Jeffry Wyatville, the residence was described as “chastely tasteful,” according to a Mirror write-up from the 1800s. Attributes incorporate two staterooms, in addition to a retiring space for the Queen, furthermore a servants’ space, as nicely as furnishings from the previous royal lodge.
Aside from their home at Kensington Palace, Prince William and Kate also lived at Anmer Corridor at Sandringham in Norfolk.