{"id":224136,"date":"2025-06-29T13:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224136\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:58:17","slug":"former-royal-employee-says-prince-william-doesnt-want-kate-middleton-to-step-into-dianas-shoes-in-one-crucial-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224136\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Royal Employee Says Prince William Doesn’t Want Kate Middleton to “Step Into Diana’s Shoes” in One Crucial Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prince William continually works to keep his late mother<\/a>‘s memory alive<\/a>. However, according to one former royal employee<\/a>, the Prince of Wales<\/a> is against forcing his wife<\/a>, Kate Middleton, to “step into Princess Diana’s shoes<\/a>” in one crucial respect.<\/p>\n

In an interview with OK! magazine<\/a>, King Charles’s former gardener<\/a>, Jack Stooks, opened up about the future of Highgrove<\/a>. Even though the property was technically handed down to Prince William when Charles took the throne<\/a>, the Prince of Wales might have reservations about living in his father’s old home.<\/p>\n

“Before [Charles] became king, I think the idea was that they needed to make sure that the garden [at Highgrove] was actually protected,” Stooks told the outlet. “So I think he thought that William probably wouldn’t move into Highgrove…so the idea was, ‘Let’s protect it somehow’…So the Prince’s Foundation now rents the garden from the Duchy of Cornwall<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Stooks continued, “The King rents his house from William, and William rents two of his houses from The King, so yeah, it’s quite odd, isn’t it?”<\/p>\n

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Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Prince Harry and Prince William at Highgrove House. | Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Stooks also suggested that William is unlikely to move his family into Highgrove House<\/a>, even in the future. “Highgrove was very much his mom and dad’s home [where they] were brought up, so it’s like a family home that mom and dad lived in,” Stooks told the outlet.<\/p>\n

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Highgrove House will be passed down to Prince William. | Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

As a result, The King’s former gardener<\/a> worries that Prince William wouldn’t want Princess Kate<\/a> to feel any pressure<\/a> due to living in Princess Diana’s former home<\/a>. “That’s like [Kate] having to step into Diana’s shoes,” Stooks explained. “And she’s so often compared to Diana<\/a> in the press, which I think is unfair because…they’re very separate people.”<\/p>\n

Only time will tell whether the Prince and Princess of Wales will eventually live at Highgrove. For now, at least, they appear to be extremely settled at Adelaide Cottage<\/a> in Windsor, and Anmer Hall<\/a> in Norfolk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,395,63303,16250,533,1760,2832,532,1412,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-224136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-getty-images","12":"tag-highgrove","13":"tag-jack-stooks","14":"tag-kate-middleton","15":"tag-king-charles","16":"tag-prince-of-wales","17":"tag-prince-william","18":"tag-princess-diana","19":"tag-princess-of-wales","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-uk-royal-family","23":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114767011530498775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}