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Kate Middleton and Prince William are on the move, inspiring a revisit to their portfolio of royal real estate.
Over the weekend, PEOPLE confirmed that the Prince and Princess of Wales, both 43, are moving to a home called Forest Lodge in Windsor.
Prince William and Princess Kate are making the change after a grueling year, as both King Charles and Princess Kate were diagnosed with cancer in 2024. The King’s treatment is ongoing, and the Princess of Wales is in remission but has described the phase after cancer treatment as “really, really difficult.”
As the Prince and Princess of Wales gear up to make a move into what PEOPLE understands will be their forever home, even after William’s eventual accession to the throne, check out all the royal residences the couple call home.
Kensington Palace
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The Prince and Princess of Wales retain a base in London through an apartment at Kensington Palace.
Apartment 1a, which actually has 22 rooms, is where the couple mainly lived from 2013 to 2022, a sentimental era as it was the period in which their children, Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, were all born.
The public got a rare peek inside William and Kate’s royal apartment in 2016 when then-President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the U.K., revealing the space was then decorated in muted hues of blue, yellow and cream with soft lighting.
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Anmer Hall
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Queen Elizabeth gave her grandson William and his bride Kate a truly royal wedding gift in 2011 by giving them the keys to Anmer Hall in Norfolk.
The 10-bedroom country home is about 110 miles north of London and located on the Sandringham Estate, making it just a few minutes from Sandringham House, where the royal family traditionally celebrates Christmas.
Anmer Hall is where Princess Kate is said to feel most at home and had already been a favorite escape for her, William and their children during school breaks, weekends and holidays before the COVID pandemic began in 2020.
The royal couple isolated at Anmer Hall with their kids during much of the pandemic and recently spent the Easter weekend at their Norfolk home as a family.
Adelaide Cottage
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In the summer of 2022, Prince William and Princess Kate moved their primary residence from Kensington Palace in London to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, taking them about 20 miles out of the city for a new chapter in the countryside. Adelaide Cottage was a smaller setup with four bedrooms and no room for the family’s longtime nanny, Maria Borrallo, who, until that point, had lived with them for eight years.
Adelaide Cottage allowed them to test a new location, and royal biographer Robert Jobson later wrote in Catherine, Princess of Wales that Princess Kate encouraged the idea as it brought Prince William geographically closer to Queen Elizabeth during what proved to be her final months. The Queen died on Sept. 8, 2022, the same day that George, Charlotte and Louis began at Lambrook, their new school in Windsor.
The cottage (which is actually a large house) also took the family closer to Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, who live about 30 minutes away in Bucklebury and often host George, Charlotte and Louis for sleepovers.
“Her parents are an enduring factor in the upbringing of their grandchildren,” a palace insider previously told PEOPLE.
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The move to Adelaide Cottage gave George, Charlotte and Louis plenty of space to play, as the house is tucked within the 4,800-acre Windsor Great Park and inside the 650-acre Home Park, privately managed by the Crown Estate.
In conversation with the Irish Guards at the regiment’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in March, Princess Kate revealed that her family moved for more room.
“We are in Windsor at the moment. We were in London but moved there for more green space. It’s close enough to London, not too far away,” the Princess of Wales said in the spring.
Forest Lodge
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On Aug. 15, The Sun was first to report that the Prince and Princess of Wales were moving into Forest Lodge in Windsor. The Georgian-era mansion once called Holly Grove was built in the 1770s, purchased by the Crown Estate in 1829 and served as the official residence of the Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park until the 1930s.
The stately eight-bedroom home underwent $2 million worth of renovations in 2001 and hit the market for rental at $20,000 a month, and William, Kate and their children will become its next tenants.
The Sun reported that Forest Lodge also features a tennis court (perfect for tennis player Kate!), a large pond and several cottages, adding that the family hopes to move in before Christmas.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are funding minor renovations and their future move privately, and they’ll pay market rent at Forest Lodge.
The family plans to continue living at Forest Lodge even after William becomes king one day, and like Adelaide Cottage, there will be no live-in staff, creating a private oasis for the family.
