Prince William, Kate Middleton's Windsor Castle estate targeted by burglars

Burglars broke into a gathering connected the royal family's Windsor Castle estate, Fox News Digital confirms.

The Windsor estate, which houses respective employees of the royal household and is besides the determination of Adelaide Cottage, wherever Prince William and Kate Middleton unrecorded with their 3 young children, was targeted successful October.

"At astir 11.45pm connected Sunday 13 October, we received a study of burglary astatine a spot connected Crown Estate onshore adjacent to the A308 successful Windsor," Thames Valley Police told Fox News Digital successful a statement.

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Prince William, Kate Middleton and their 3 children were reportedly location during an October break-in connected their royal estate. (Getty Images)

"Offenders entered a workplace gathering and made disconnected with a achromatic Izuzu pickup and a reddish quad bike. They past made disconnected towards the Old Windsor/Datchet area," constabulary continued.

They added, "No arrests person been made astatine this signifier and an probe is ongoing."

The Sun, which primitively reported the news, wrote that William and Middleton, on with children George, Charlotte and Louis, were each location dormant astatine the clip of the break-in.

Prince William and Kate Middleton's household reportedly unrecorded 5 minutes from wherever the break-in took place. (Will Warr)

Their location is reportedly conscionable 5 minutes distant from the gathering that was burglarized.

The outlet claims that the burglars "must person been watching Windsor Castle for a while" to cognize wherever the vehicles were and the champion clip to effort the break-in. Alarms are successful spot connected the estate, a root explained, but employees were reportedly unaware of the contented until "they crashed done the information barrier" astatine a gated exit.

Prince William and Kate Middleton moved their household to a cottage connected the Windsor Castle property successful 2022. (Getty Images)

A wide presumption of the Shaw Farm Gate entranceway astatine Windsor Castle connected Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. A caller information breach occurred present erstwhile a conveyance attempted to thrust done the information gates. (W8 Media/Mega)

"The obstruction has needed to beryllium replaced arsenic it was truthful severely damaged," the root claimed.

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Just up of the October break-in, The Sun besides reported that equipped guards had been removed from the 2 main gates of the estate, seemingly a determination made due to the fact that of the shortage of qualified officers.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Kensington Palace for comment.

The royal household has yet to remark connected the burglary. (Getty Images)

In 2022, the household made the determination from their location successful Kensington Palace to Adelaide Cottage connected the much agrarian Windsor Castle estate, with respective sources claiming that William and Middleton wanted to springiness their children a antithetic beingness than they had successful London.

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"They are specified an outdoorsy family, London conscionable wasn’t moving for them anymore," a root who knows the household told People mag amid the move. "The countryside is decidedly their blessed place."

Adelaide Cottage is simply a four-bedroom home. (Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images)

Their cottage is described arsenic a humble four-bedroom property. It was built successful 1831 for Queen Adelaide, the woman of King William IV.

It is simply a 10-minute locomotion from determination to the castle itself.

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In 2021, a antheral named Jaswant Singh Chail was arrested for breaking into the Windsor Castle estate. He scaled the walls with a loaded crossbow connected Christmas Day with the volition of killing Queen Elizabeth II. He pleaded guilty, and successful 2023, helium was sentenced to 9 years successful prison.

Fox News Digital's Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this report.