Kate Middleton and Prince William’s Decision to Move to Windsor Had a Poignant Tie to Queen Elizabeth
Kate Middleton and Prince William opted to move from Kensington Palace to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor two years ago for a heartfelt reason.
In 2022, the couple — then styled as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — relocated from London to Windsor and the four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage with their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
One reason the couple opted to move their family? It is nearby Lambrook School, where all three kids began that September (and remain pupils at still today).
In his new biography Catherine, Princess of Wales (out now), Robert Jobson expands on Kate and William’s decision to move — and how it sweetly involves Queen Elizabeth.
Jobson writes that William, 42, wanted to move so he could be closer to his grandmother after the April 2021 death of her husband, Prince Philip, and Kate, also 42, was very much in favor of the idea.
Quoting in aide, Jobson writes that William “knew his time with his grandmother was precious and he is delighted they, as a couple, made that decision.”
He adds, “Catherine understood that for William, as a future king, it was important for him to be geographically closer to the late Queen in her final months, when he was required to support both her and his father. It made a real difference.
They were in regular contact, seeing each other in person and speaking on the phone several times a week, bringing them even closer.”
After the late Queen’s husband of over 73 years, the Duke of Edinburgh, died in 2021, she struggled with the loss — but was buoyed by regular phone calls and visits from William, now geographically closer than he had been when his family of five was living at Kensington Palace in London.
Adelaide Cottage is only about a 30-minute walk or a 10-minute drive from where the late Queen was living at Windsor Castle before her death on Sept. 8, 2022, at 96 years old. At the time of her death, the Queen was staying at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where the royal family traditionally retreats to as summer ends.
