Prince William and Kate Middleton have very unusual sleeping arrangements in royal home

Prince William and Kate Middleton walk their clip successful respective residences astir the state and the floorplan astatine their family's authoritative pad is somewhat unusual

The Prince and Princess of Wales don't often speech astir their location life. However, arrangements erstwhile they are astatine Kensington Palace are somewhat antithetic than what you mightiness expect.

This is due to the fact that they don't slumber successful an upstairs chamber similar astir couples - with a level program of their location successful Apartment 1A of the iconic London gathering showing wherever the bedrooms are.

While the mates and their 3 children, Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, relocated to Adelaide Cottage connected the Windsor Estate successful September 2022, their erstwhile location - which is inactive listed arsenic the family's authoritative residence - has ever been a spot puzzling.

Instead of being upstairs, the main chamber they utilized to stock was connected the crushed level of Apartment 1A astatine Kensington Palace, Cambridgeshire Live reports. This was the erstwhile location of Princess Margaret and has 20 rooms, 4 floors, its ain lift, gym, and 9 rooms for members of staff.

The precocious royal writer Christopher Warwick explained wherefore it's called an 'apartment' connected True Royalty's Royal Beat. He said: "All of these royal residences astatine Kensington Palace are called apartments, which of people makes radical instantly deliberation they are flats similar the American word for an apartment."

"They are not. If you deliberation of Kensington Palace successful a way, it is built astir 3 courtyards. If you benignant of deliberation of them arsenic being these fantastic reddish ceramic terrace houses. Because they are each joined, but abstracted houses."

While the couple, who appeared successful a candid video earlier this period astir Kate's crab journey, besides person entree to Anmer Hall successful Norfolk they present unrecorded astatine the much humble four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage.

Nestled successful the bosom of the Crown Estate's backstage 655-acre royal park, the location was built successful 1831 arsenic a retreat for King William IV's wife, Queen Adelaide. It comes with a fascinating and scandalous past.

Adelaide Cottage was known to beryllium a favourite location of Queen Victoria arsenic she often enjoyed taking her meal there. Another of its good known erstwhile inhabitants was Princess Margaret's emotion interest, Group Captain Peter Townsend.

A erstwhile RAF aviator and aboriginal an equerry to King George VI, Townsend embarked connected a celebrated emotion matter with Princess Margaret. Their narration was peculiarly sordid arsenic Peter was a divorced antheral who was 16 years older than her.

Adelaide Cottage underwent large renovations successful 2015 and has immoderate earnestly elaborate decorations. According to reports, the maestro chamber astatine the cottage reportedly has a ceiling covered with gilded dolphins and a enactment decoration.

Following Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding successful 2018, determination were little suggestions that the cottage would beryllium their caller Windsor home. It was said that the mates liked however backstage the cottage was and however adjacent it was to London.