Again, Prince William and Kate were never happy about being “given” Adelaide Cottage. It’s a four-bedroom house with no place for live-in staff, not even Nanny Maria or Carole Middleton. They moved into Adelaide because they believed it was a temporary situation, that they would soon get a bigger property, either Windsor Castle or Royal Lodge, the 40-room mansion leased by Prince Andrew. “Royal sources” have periodically popped up over the past nine months to both complain about the “cramped” living situation in Adelaide and insist that the Waleses are quite happy there. In the big real estate switcheroo, Andrew was supposed to be shuffled off into Frogmore Cottage to free up Royal Lodge for the Waleses. That hasn’t happened – Andrew refuses to move, and Charles only cared about evicting the Sussexes. So Will and Kate are in limbo. And now “insiders” have more to say about this whole situation:
Prince William and Princess Kate don’t want Prince Andrew’s home, thank you very much. Insiders dispelled rumors that King Charles is kicking his disgraced brother out of his longtime home, Royal Lodge, to make room for the Prince and Princess of Wales.
A source close to William and Kate told Page Six the couple is “extremely happy” at Adelaide Cottage with their three children, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 8, and 5-year-old Prince Louis. And a move could prove a costly security headache for the king, multiple sources added.
The Waleses only relocated from Kensington Palace in London to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor last September. However, there has been chatter that Charles wanted to move the family into Andrew’s $38 million Royal Lodge in Windsor — which boasts 30 rooms and is considerably larger than the four-bedroom Adelaide — after telling his younger brother to move out.
Not only do William, 40, and Kate, 41, want to stay put, but Royal Lodge lies outside the security perimeter of Windsor Castle. As a result, it has separate security for which Charles foots the bill. However, taxpayers would be stuck with that separate bill if working royals William and Kate were to move in, a fate Charles is eager to avoid. Adelaide Cottage — along with Frogmore House, once home to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — sits within the security perimeter covering Windsor Castle.
This argument makes no sense to me – “Will and Kate are happy in their cramped cottage and they would never want to move into the huge mansion because of the security costs!” Like… King Charles is already paying for Andrew’s security, at the cost of £3 million a year. If Charles had the appetite for it, he could force Andrew into Frogmore Cottage (thus cutting down on the security costs he’s paying privately) and install the Waleses into Royal Lodge. William and Kate already have exorbitant security costs already, because they still have Kensington Palace Apartment 1, Anmer Hall and Adelaide Cottage. And again, William has access to the Duchy of Cornwall real estate. Anyway, I do love that “royal sources” can’t keep their stories straight about how much Will and Kate loathe living in Adelaide.
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I doubt will is there much and he van always go to another one of his residences.
Mmm. Is this Kate and Will’s separate PR clashing again? Like Middleton Manor brief that poor Katie is in cramped quarters and needs a bigger (separation) house and William’s sources canter out to inform her via the media that she’s very happy where she is, thank you?
William is definitely trying to play the game this week. And play it in a new way. So I’d buy that it’s W—W telling K and Carole to STFU about real estate whining because it’s making him look hypocritical with his homelessness agenda. And it costs him nothing to put this message out there if it’s really just K’s home and he’s living elsewhere.
Right on. Shawna, I think you have hit it.
@shauna exactly, and if anyone believes this dross I have a bridge they can buy
Or… the “Wales’ are cramped at Adelaide” was to help set up the narrative of “close quarters put a strain on the marriage and they had to divorce/separate” and it was Will’s doing. So now Kate is like, “nope, we’re so happy” to counter the emerging narrative of discord.
Bingo! The Walses have resumed their passive-aggressive ping-pong match.
Or, and hear me out, maybe willy is doing this to paint ma midds and her spawn as greedy and grasping for more. He can come out and say he wanted simple while kopykate and mummy fraudster were pushing for more and more, hence the articles about her buying a 2nd duplicate ugly dress during a cost of living crisis. Willy is going to say her spending on her family was the cause and that he wanted Adelaide to keep ma from encouraging kkkates spending and stealing.
This is what I think is happening. Its just what makes the most sense and explains the back and forth of “they’re moving to royal lodge” “no they’re not Adelaide is perfect for them” “AC is too cramped!” “AC has plenty of room!”
Someone thinks AC is too cramped, and someone else thinks its just fine, and I think we all know who is who.
Do you think two of the kids share a room so Will and Kate don’t have to? (If they even live together).
I think they share when Carole stays which is often. I doubt William has ever stayed. He stays at Windsor castle when he’s wants to see the children on school days. Weekends and school holidays will be 50/50 custody as it was with Charles and Diana.
If anyone believes that William with all his entitlement and resentment towards Kate, shares a house, I have a bridge to sell him. I’m certain that whenever he’s at Windsor go see the kids, he stays there and not anywhere near her.
I think he stays at the castle, so he’s not bothered by how “cramped” Adelaide is.
@Becks1 ✅✅✅
I don’t think he’s there at all.
Well, George is the heir, so him sharing a room with one of his lesser siblings is right out. Utterly unacceptable Woke-ist nonsense rotting the brains of the peasant class these days.
And you can’t have Charlotte and Louis rooming together because it just isn’t DONE, darling. You’d either be sticking a child in a room decorated for the opposite sex or, horror of horrors, have to decorate a gender neutral children’s room. Can’t be poisoning the children’s minds with things like THAT, now can we?
Obviously the only reasonable solution is to move to another multi-million Pound mansion.
There they go inserting HM again and using Frogmore House instead of cottage.
I caught that mistake too! One would think Royal Reporters could get titles and house names correct. It would seem to be part of the job.
Quite a regular ‘mistake’ isn’t it?
They’re still talking about this? Guess there are storms-a-brewin’. One of them “loves” it so much there, she’s going to “refuse” to move to the larger property her husband acquires and they’ll have an “arrangement” like Charles and Camilla, where the Queen Escort doesn’t even live with the king. That’ll be the party line, anyway.
Why does Prince Andrew need security? What exactly does he do in terms of royal “work”?
Nothing, but he is still an incredibly public person and a potential kidnap or terrorist target.
The thought of kidnapping Andrew reminds of the Simpson’s meme where they throw the kid back for being too annoying.
That doesn’t count though, because so is PH and they don’t afford him protection. The big excuse is not being a “working” royal.
Fingers crossed!!!
Do we have a square footage for Adelaide Cottage? Or could anyone at least give some sort of size comparison (i,e. how big it is as compared to, say, an average upper-middle class American home)? Just how “cramped” is it, really?
If the house isn’t big enough they could just buy a bigger house. They certainly can afford it.
I imagine it’s like a 3000 sqft McMansion with large rooms, limited bedroom count, no room for servants, but def personal space in each spacious bedroom with full bathroom. Does it have a basement man cave, though? 🤔
ETA: I’m imagining wrong. Just image-googled. It’s 2k sq ft, with the servants quarters only semi detached. Plus epic garden space perfect for children to roam safely.
Too late to edit. The aerial photo would suggest about 5k sq ft (again with nearly attached servants quarters). I asked for square footage and Google told me some unrelated property called Adeline cottage is 2k, and I posted before realizing my mistake. So yeah probably 5k sq ft and *massive* gardens. Super enviable, IMO.
You can find it on Google maps. Search for Windsor Castle (if you search for Adelaide Cottage you might find it points to a street in a nearby village). The Adelaide Cottage compound can be found to the right of the Castle behind some high trees and accessed by a private road. There is an oval shape marked out by the trees, maybe a helicoper landing site, which helps to find it.
The compound includes the original Adelaide Cottage plus the former Adelaide Lodge which has now been joined to the ‘Cottage ‘ to create a large L-shaped building. It’s easy to see where the Cottage has been extended at the side and the rear to join it to the Lodge. This work was carried out about 2 years ago.
The rest of the compound has a row of small houses/cottages linked by a courtyard to the main house, obviously staff housing ,and further housing near the entrance from the road.
It may be that the original Adelaide Cottage is used as the main family accommodation but the building as a whole is huge.
This is extremely interesting and very informative!! Thank you for the tip!!
@Miranda
Open the link and click on PAGE 64 of the photo collection https://www.thedicamillo.com/house/windsor-castle/ for a coloured image of Adelaide Cottage with Adelaide Lodge beside it. Here in Europe Adelaide Cottage would be described as a villa (mansion), a large and very grand house, something only multimillionaires can afford.
The exclusive location plus privacy that go with Adelaide Cottage make it a property that only the top ten percent could afford – and it is clearly a very spacious and grand old home with its circular drive and ample staff quarters of equal size right next door. Most people would give their eye teeth to live in such grand style!
So KC found a good excuse to tell them no and publicized it? Wonder if the no came before the Trooping thunder-stealing or after.
I have my suspicions that it came after the Clown-A-Nation as W&K played that disastrous PR agenda video. The mere fact that they were late is one thing but for your heir to create his own propaganda machine and put it out there for the masses is another beasts all in its own.
There was an aerial shot of the so called cottage it’s on a large property with a residence for the staff.
They are getting a bit better on their PR game recently. Maybe it is as simple as they having already agreed on a suitable schedule to have their comfort and get good press about being ” down to Earth” and living in a small house , when you know, they own 3 more.
Men are creature of habits. I doubt William ever wanted to get out of Anmer. I think The Royal Lodge and Fort Belvedere were what Kate wanted and that is why Charles gave her Adelaide. I can see this and Middleton bad PR being his payback for all the Charles should be skipped. ” Ah, but you already scammed William for money to buy your own Manor, why dont you stay there with your mam?”
It’s so weird that Anmer Hall seems to have fallen out of the rota lexicon – like it’s never, ever mentioned anymore. Even in this article, it says that they moved from KP to Adelaide, not from Anmer to Adelaide. IIRC it wasn’t even mentioned as a possible getaway on their recent school breaks. Very curious. Is the directive to the rota to pretend it doesn’t exist since Will is living there alone (or …not alone)? Did the Middletons sell their home and squat in Anmer? What’s the deal? It’s so strange.
They do still talk about Anmer, but not as often. Like I remember reading a comment in one of these stories from a few weeks ago about how they spend every school holiday in Norfolk.
I think they have toned down the Anmer talk for two reasons – to stop reminding people of how many houses they have, and because i think William might spend a lot of time at anmer without Kate.
I think William spends time there with the kids but not kate.
I guess by the end of this year we’ll eventually hear that the Waleses moved to Frogmore Cottage with a tabloid supported royal reason why that is the best decision for them and the institution. Hahaha 🤣
British Royal propaganda is second to none. 🤷♀️
They are hard at work publishing and pushing the narratives that are being given from KP or CH. It’s a constant battle as to who they are taking orders from and which ones to print but we can all be assured that KFC and Cowmilla are the top of their list!
@MSTJ: “I guess by the end of this year we’ll eventually hear that the Waleses moved to Frogmore Cottage.”
LOL! I wouldn’t be surprised. Harry & Meghan moving to FC put Windsor ‘on the map’ globally, in terms of popular interest. It was reported earlier this year, after the leak about Chuck sending H&M an eviction notice, that WanK had been eyeing and asking about Frogmore Cottage, and Frogmore House. 🙄 WanK won’t get FH, because it’s considered more of a museum, in addition to being used for parties and receptions.
Historically, FH was purchased by George III for his wife, Queen Charlotte. It was beloved Queen Char who then built adjacent Frogmore Cottage, in the French cottages orné style (which Q Char is credited for popularizing in England). FC was lovingly built by Q Char as a getaway garden retreat. It is reportedly slightly larger and more architecturally significant than Adelaide Cottage. AC was, in part, assembled out of building materials salvaged from Royal Lodge add-ons, demolished by Wm IV, after he inherited the throne from his overly self-indulgent bro, George IV. I kid you not! 🤣🤣😂🤪
The Brit monarchy’s royal drama show antics have been quite messy for a very long time! Particularly in recent history, re the Houses of Hanover and Windsor. 🤡🤡💩💩
Note they again attributed “Frogmore House” as H&M’s former home, rather than the actual “Frogmore Cottage”.
Frogmore House is bigger. Say someone is unaware of the difference between the two residences. They google Frogmore House. End result is potentially more sympathy for W&K, and resentment towards H&M. I think they made that mistake on purpose.
Eh. Yet another “news” source that can’t be bothered to realize that Frogmore Cottage and Frogmore House are not the same property. Either they’re not talking with actual “insiders”, they don’t care about the details and actual facts that they’re spewing to their readers, or both. Next.
LOL, so now the reason they wont move from Adelaide is because they are thinking of the taxpayer and trying to be frugal with taxpayer money!!! LOL for days!!
Kate is SO PISSED she’s stuck with Adelaide. I think she 100% thought she was getting either Windsor Castle or Royal Lodge. That’s why the move was so rushed at the last minute, after a year of talking about it – she was holding out for a bigger house and when the queen became really sick in August or thereabouts, she thought Adelaide would be temporary until William got the duchy of cornwall.
Bit of a miscalculation on her part.
@ Becks1, yes, Keen has a distorted image of her worth and KFC decided to remind her of how replaceable she is. Keen has boxed herself into AC and she is pissed that they played her at her own game.
As for TOB, it’s not too cramped as he isn’t living with Keen as he simply can’t tolerate her as is evident in the picture above after the Garter ceremony. IF it’s true with what @ Zazzoo stated with the square footage, it’s perfectly adequate for Keen. AC isn’t some derelict dwelling but Keen is throwing out this nonsense narrative of how perfectly happy they all are in AC.
At some point during the pandemic William basically decided he didn’t want to pretend any more and that was the reason for needing a new place. Because at the time they had KP which was more than large enough and Anmer for holiday and off time.
I agree that kate accepted Adelaide cottage as a temporary move expecting to get something better in short order. But this whole security argument is clearly William pushing back, even though security is covered by the government outside of the sovereign grant.
Adelaide cottage is essentially two homes if you look at google maps. The servant quarters would be in the second home. Who knows maybe that’s where William stays too.
Yes I think the security comments are William saying “nope, not making anyone pay more for you.”
They are also interesting in light of the Middletons current financial mess. I wonder if Kate was hoping to move to Royal Lodge and have her parents move in with her, selling their Berkshire house/estate/mansion/whatever, and that way her parents would be in government protected housing, but not on the Windsor estate itself.
IDK, but this point about the security seems very pointed.
I just want to know if the bulk of her wardrobe stayed in KP and is shuttled weekly according to engagements since the make Adelaide sound like a shack I can’t imagine a walk in wardrobe.
I wouldn’t put it past them at all to be using KP as a mega walk-in closet, but the aerial of Adelaide suggests plenty of room for spacious closets. I mean, definitely Manhattan penthouse style spacious, but maybe that’s insufficient for Amelda-Kate’s closet needs.
Why would Keen need closets?? Keen occupies her days purchasing another set of dress coats, blazers, slacks and every other item to fulfill her full-on cosplaying of Diana, QEII or Meghan depending on her “mood”.
Someone in KP read the room and are trying to change the narrative – interest rates are about to go up again here in the UK and people who pay rent and have mortgages are going to be hit really really hard as many are struggling now. My landlord put my rent up but about £200 but he had no choice as his mortgage repayments have doubled since his fixed rate ended – am lucky the increase means am stilly paying below the market rate for the property but still its a big increase. I can afford it for now but many others cannot.
I read about interest rates in the UK not decreasing as expected this morning. I’m so sorry to hear about your difficulties in the UK.
I too am horrified as to the financial situation that you @ Digital Unicorn are experiencing in Britain, along with the thousands of other Brits who are suffering as well, some more than others. It’s perfectly clear of how poorly the government is mishandling the financial crisis that you have been facing for the 16+ months.
None of you have been able to take solace with the never ending battles that you all face on a daily basis.
I agree, this and Willy’s latest ‘fix homelessness’ talk. We’re in big trouble and some of the royals PR folk are finally catching up to the crisis. The mortgage stories coming out this week are heartbreaking. Our current five year term is up next summer and we’re on 1.8% at the moment. Right now I think it’s something like 5.8% for five year terms. It’s horrifying and we’re scraping around to try and over-pay as much as we can ahead of needing to get a new deal in a year.
Oh and new data is showing that the years of austerity have contributed to British children being shorter than they used to be. There are league tables (apparently) and we’re falling. Along with Victorian era illnesses like ricketts coming back,
But you enjoy your many homes P&P of Wails.
I lived through the ’80s (in the States) and I’m still mad at Margaret Thatcher for taking milk away from the schoolchildren (among many other things). This austerity nonsense benefits the rich at the expense of the poor. She and Ronnie started it and people are still suffering, decades on.
Even so I’m shocked that children aren’t growing as much and that ricketts is coming back! WTF, UK?!
God save the queen
Her fascist regime
**The Sussexes lived in Frogmore Cottage not Frogmore House.** You would think the way they obsess over the Sussexes, these people would say least get the basics right.
So are we getting these competing narratives bc they are coming from different houses or are the Walses unable to read the room? I feel like it’s the latter.
Funny how it’s now Charles who wanted them in Royal Lodge. Normal Bill wants to stay put and is always putting the taxpayer first.
That makes it obvious this is coming from William. There is no way Charles wants to kick a hornets nest like Andrew unless there is no choice. Andrew has a fully paid lease for his lifetime and the repairs that are supposed to happen now seem to be covered by whatever the queen provided.
I wonder if Louis will complain one day that George got the bigger bedroom.
It’ll be interesting to watch those kids grow up. The William and Harry dynamic was painfully obvious from early on, with William being this fair haired golden child and Harry a more awkward, shy redhead. But the George-Louis dynamic seems very different. Louis is emerging as the attention-grabbing extrovert, not George.
I don’t think that’s an accurate reading of William and Harry’s dynamic at all. William was the handsome golden child, but perceived as more serious (kingly) — same with George. Harry was the cheeky redhead who pulled faces at the press. George and Louis are playing the same roles. The only differentiator is the presence of Charlotte.
TBF, I only ever saw them in magazine photos. Pre internet, never had cable tv. Which is also all I really know about George and Louis. No live action data.
“ Royal Lodge lies outside the security perimeter of Windsor Castle. As a result, it has separate security for which Charles foots the bill. However, taxpayers would be stuck with that separate bill if working royals William and Kate were to move in…”
So Royal Lodge is outside the perimeter of automatic security and whoever lives there is responsible for paying for their own protection. That’s new information, isn’t it? I thought that Paedrew had his security removed and the queen took over those payments. Now we’re hearing that Paedrew has perhaps been funded all along? So CRex has been literally protecting his brother by keeping him in Royal Lodge. PA doesn’t want to leave, but I do understand why moving into that property is sort of touchy PR-wise.
Any they never mention than technically ALL of the royals wealth and income should belong to the nation (and others they looted and stole from). It’s a con.
To me, this feels like a play for Frogmore House or Cottage or Windsor Castle. I think the “tell” is that their argument is that it needs to be on the grounds of the castle for security reasons. William would love to take something that was Harry’s, but the Frogmore House is more grand. The Castle is probably a no go because it needs so many repairs, and because William wants that for his own, not to share with Kate.
I think this is just clean up from earlier comments that the wails are cramped, the children go to school with kids who live in bigger homes, and they really, really want Royal Lodge.
Huh. Seems like the Wails need to get on the same page for their PR! I think that someone has informed prince affordable housing that it’s not a great look to talk about fixing homelessness all while complaining that your fourth home is “cramped”.
You’ve got to love the unecessary swipe at his uncle, too – there are several reasons why Andrew should not be allowed to stay in at Royal Lodge, but the additional security costs being borne by Charles is hardly topping the list. It’s a little dig, and something that probably bothers Charles, penny-pincher as he can sometimes be.
I’ve never understood why the Wails would want royal lodge for themselves. Firstly, there’s not enough bleach or sage or whatever in all the world that would ever remove Andrew’s presence, but secondly: Why go for the long dge when you could set your sights on the whole castle? I know Charles has said he’s not giving it up, but the man can’t be everywhere at once. And I could see William and Kate arguing that in order to truly start working full-time, they’ll need a bigger home base than Adelaide. Not for them, of course, but for their growing staff, now that they have the early years and earthsh!t and homelessness to solve. And the children! Won’t someone consider the children?
Yeah, I’d need Royal Lodge to be disinfected and fumigated before I moved in. This royal residence drama is all so clueless and offensive.
I am not a fan of this polka dot dress on Kate. She looks really flat and dull. Diana carried the same design with a lot of confidence, pizzazz and oomph.
I personally think waitys camp has been putting out the “cramped” messages to the press. And I think Burger King is saying “nope” it’s fine because it’s making him look bad not to mention a HUGE hypocrite (not that he already isnt) with his homelessness crap.
Do I think Willy lives with Waity. No way in hell. He can’t even manage to put on a show for an hour in the public. She tries to look over at him and he won’t even budge. There is absolutely NO way he is living in “cramped” Adelaid with her. And I noticed, when they post photos of them actually looking at each other they make sure to crop the picture – and a lot of the times he is looking at someone else past her.
I think he visits with the kids when he visits Windsor and lives in his other several homes. It also explains why the kids a lot of the times act like they havent seen him (or maybe they just prefer him over her?) And other times like when they did the joint engagement with Charlotte (and william & charlotte arrived together) and she ran to her mother as if she hadnt seen her with a duffle bag. Willy is most likely staying at Anmer and is why the press is MUTE about that property.