Inside Wills & Kate’s ‘normal’ life at pink Adelaide Cottage after security scare – including staff they refuse to have

WHEN we deliberation of royal homes, we deliberation of castles, towers, large halls and drawbridges. 

But the world for the Wales’ is acold from that. In fact, Prince William and Princess Kate unrecorded successful a modest four-bedroom home that’s adjacent painted PINK connected the outside. 

Named Adelaide Cottage, the young royals moved into pad successful September 2022 to beryllium adjacent Windsor Castle and their children's school. 

There, they rise their brood: George, 11, Charlotte, nine, and six-year-old Louis.

Charming Adelaide Cottage couldn't beryllium further from Wills and Kate’s 20-room, four-storey apartment successful Kensington, which they inactive usage erstwhile they request to beryllium successful London.

Sources said the mates dreamt of having a "modest" location with a garden truthful the children could play extracurricular together.

It hasn’t each been sunshine and rainbows, though. 

The young royal household were recently raided by masked men portion they slept unknowingly.

Two men scaled a 6ft obstruction astatine nighttime and snuck connected the Windsor Castle property to bargain a pick-up and quad motorcycle that were stored successful a barn conscionable 5 minutes from Adelaide Cottage.

The raiders struck astatine Shaw Farm, a moving workplace wrong the castle’s information zone, and utilized a stolen motortruck to smash their mode done a information gross astatine the royal estate.

Wills and Kate, some 42, and their children were believed to beryllium sleeping peacefully astatine the time.

The young royals softly moved to the Cottage successful the aftermath of Queen Elizabeth II’s decease successful September 2022. 

Royal adept Robert Jobson foretold that it was “the commencement of a caller epoch for William” and his family. 

Two years on, it seems his predictions were right. 

In pursuit of surviving a “normal” life, the Wales’ person ditched a cardinal subordinate of unit successful their caller home, big weeknight household dinners similar america mean people and overmuch more…

No Butler Zone

Kate and William's determination to Adelaide Cottage successful 2022 led to them cutting down connected staff, according to royal biographer Robert Hardman.

The Wales’ nary longer person a full-time butler astatine location and alternatively take to beryllium “very overmuch them astatine location with the kids”. 

Robert made the staffing revelation successful his caller publication New King, New Court, and elaborate the reasons wherefore the younger royals person ruled retired employing round-the-clock help. 

“The mates did not question to boost the unit numbers astatine Adelaide Cottage, not slightest due to the fact that determination would beryllium small country to bash so," helium penned. 

Robert did explicate that an alternate relation presently exists astatine Prince William and Kate's different residence, Kensington Palace successful London.

"The Kensington Palace squad does see a ‘yeoman,’ a multi-tasking attendant who looks aft everything from luggage to uniforms, but determination is nary 'gentleman's gentleman' connected the staff," helium wrote.

"And surely nary butler - it’s precise overmuch them astatine location with the kids.”

A breakdown of costs from the 2023-2024 twelvemonth recovered that the wage measure for royal unit was £27.9 million. The outgo of housekeeping and hospitality for the upkeep of a royal household was besides revealed to person outgo £2.6 cardinal for the year.

Kitchen Diaries 

Princess Kate erstwhile revealed that she loves to big curry nights for her family-of-five. 

She said that she would often effort her manus astatine making South Asian versions of the crockery astatine home. 

That includes preparing 1 mentation for herself and William, and a second, cooler mentation for their 3 children. 

But she added: "Charlotte is beauteous bully with heat."

Kate revealed the astonishing information astir her lone girl portion discussing her then-upcoming travel to Pakistan successful October 2019. 

Home Comforts

Comfort dishes were apt the family’s go-to meal arsenic portion of Kate’s betterment during chemotherapy this year. 

Kensington Palace announced successful January 2024 that she had undergone a planned abdominal country for an undisclosed aesculapian condition. 

Then successful March, pursuing mammoth speculation connected societal media, Kate announced that post-operative tests had recovered crab successful her body. 

The palace shared that the Princess had been undergoing chemotherapy since precocious February.

Upon aesculapian advice, she recovered astatine location pursuing a two-week infirmary stint for her cognition - and is said to person received a lukewarm invited upon her arrival.

According to 1 royal commentator, George, Charlotte and Louis amazed Kate with “cards and banners and small gifts” erstwhile she returned to Adelaide Cottage. 

Ingrid Seward - exertion successful main of Majesty Magazine - told Fabulous: “It was a peculiar infinitesimal erstwhile the Princess of Wales arrived backmost from hospital.

“She had been successful infirmary for 2 weeks, which was ages for kids utilized to seeing their mum each day.

“They wanted to astonishment her. And acknowledgment to Kate’s endless patience successful the past, are skilled astatine arts and crafts and cooking.”

Royal Whizzers

Last July, The Sun connected Sunday exclusively revealed that Prince William had bagged himself a flashy e-scooter.

Fast guardant 12 months to July this year, the Prince of Wale showed that helium was a royal whizzer aft being spotted darting astir Windsor connected his caller wheels.

The dad-of-three was filmed by a tourer riding the two-wheeler successful the castle courtyard.

He uses the scooter to zip to the castle for meetings from adjacent Adelaide Cottage.

A root said astatine the time: "It's becoming specified a communal show astatine Windsor seeing William buzz astir successful the scooter that radical hardly rise an eyebrow now.

"It's surely the champion and quickest mode to get astir for meetings and to spot the King erstwhile helium visits, and it is overmuch much environmentally affable than taking a car from Adelaide Cottage." 

The 10mph instrumentality is simply a alteration of gait for the heir to the throne, left, who took portion successful a foundation motorbike thrust crossed South Africa with member Prince Harry successful 2008.