A big move is on the cards for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as the couple are set to relocate their family very soon. And, just like many parents, the couple's children are at the top of their priority list, as their move is said to be for the benefit of George, Charlotte, and Louis.
The Cambridges, then just Kate, William, George, and Charlotte, moved to Kensington Palace in 2017, from their country estate, Amner Hall. Later this summer, the family, including the youngest member, Prince Louis, will be upping sticks and moving to Berkshire.
When William's father, the Prince of Wales, becomes king, the Cambridges will move into Windsor Castle. For now, whilst the Queen is still on the throne, the family are moving into a house on the estate.
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As a result of the move, Prince George and Princess Charlotte will be moving schools. Currently being educated at a preparatory school in Battersea, London, the two oldest Cambridge children will be induced into a co-educational private school in Berkshire, which Prince Louis will also join when he starts school in September.
Friends have claimed that, once their children have fled the nest in several years time, the Duke and Duchess would like to move back to Amner Hall, the couple's countryside bolthole which was gifted to them by the Queen after they wed. The sprawling country pile is situated within the Queen's Sandringham Estate.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, a friend said: "The reality is they are quite confined in what they can do in London. The kids can't go into the park and kick a football with friends; their plan is to be there for the next 10 to 15 years, then move to Amner, which is so special to them."
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were, for some time, having a home built for them just outside of the West Country. Prince Charles, who lives not too far from Bristol at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, was planning on building a country house for his eldest son and daughter-in-law in Herefordshire.
The Prince of Wales knocked plans to build at the run-down estate of Harewood End, which encompasses a boastful 900 acres within its limits, on the head just last year. The Duchy of Cornwall confirmed that work had finished at the estate, which Prince Charles acquired in 2000, despite the fact that he had not built the magnificent mansion he had envisioned his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren living in..
A Duchy spokesperson said: "The regeneration project at Harewood Park is now complete and the estate comprises a number of let residential and office units in converted barns, together with farmland."
Those living locally to Harewood End Estate are unlikely to be surprised that they are not going to be neighbours with the future king, who will be taking on the Duchy estate once his father becomes the monarch. Prince Charles is currently devising plans for a 'slimmed down monarchy', which will involve re-evaluating the property owned by the Royal Family.
Despite Prince Charles' inability to build the new house, the Duchy claims that he has brought jobs and investment to the little corner of the county. It claims that he did this by restoring an abandoned group of farmsteads, a ruined chapel, stables, a lake, and other buildings.
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