{"id":349297,"date":"2025-08-16T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349297\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:01:14","slug":"prince-and-princess-of-wales-to-move-into-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349297\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince and Princess of Wales to move into new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will only be a short move for the royal family from their current main home<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_katemiddleton34.jpg\" alt=\"Prince William and his wife Catherine\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The couple plan to move later this year(Image: 2025 WPA Pool)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Prince and Princess of Wales are to move into a new home in Windsor, it has been confirmed. William and Kate are moving to eight-bedroom Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park, with their children George, Charlotte and Louis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Kensington Palace spokesperson said: &#8220;The Wales family will move house later this year.&#8221; According to The Sun, the royal couple are paying for the property and renovations themselves, avoiding any extra cost to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The paper reported that work has already started on minor renovation at the Grade II-listed property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Redacted planning applications lodged with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead show permission for minor internal and external alterations was granted earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The council&#8217;s decision notice refers to the removal of a window and works to a fireplace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755352873_407_0_Trooping-the-Colour.jpg\" alt=\"&#10;Prince George, Prince William the Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The royal family will not be moving far(Image: Ian Vogler \/ Daily Mirror)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In 2001, Forest Lodge underwent \u00a31.5m restoration works and was put on the rental market for \u00a315,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Images inside the home taken at the time showed the property boasted original stonework, elaborate plaster cornices and ceiling decoration ,and a half-barrel vaulted hallway ceiling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Wales&#8217; move will be a short one from their current main home at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, and the children attend nearby Lambrook <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/wales-schools\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They also have homes at Anmer Hall in Norfolk and Apartment 1A in Kensington Palace in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">As heir to the throne, William inherited the Duchy of Cornwall estate, a portfolio of land, property and investments valued at more than \u00a31 billion, when his father became King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">According to The Sun, Forest Lodge would be worth about \u00a316m on the open market. The freehold is owned by the King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will only be a short move for the royal family from their current main homeThe couple plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,532,519,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-349297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-prince-william","11":"tag-royal-family","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038814948530786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349297","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=349297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}