Prince William and family move from London to Windsor

AFP

Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton will move from central London to the outskirts of Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II lives. The decision considered the interests of the couple’s children, the advisory announced on Monday (22).

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be moving into Adelaide Cottage, a house that is about 35km west of the capital. In this residence, the family will be close to the 96-year-old sovereign, indicated a source close to the couple, who have lived until now in Kensington Palace.

“It was a decision that parents made for their children to have a life ‘as close to normal as possible’,” explained the source, quoted by the Press Association.

“They wish George, Charlotte and Louis had a little more freedom than they do in central London,” according to the same source.

George, 9, ranks third in the order of succession to the throne, after his grandfather Charles, 73, and his father William.

He, his sister Charlotte, 7, and brother Louis, 4, will attend a private school in Lambrook, a 20-minute drive from Windsor.

The rent of Adelaide Cottage and the move will be financed from the couple’s personal resources, as will the education costs of their three children, estimated at more than £50,000 a year.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, both 40, will maintain their base in Kensington, as a place of work and representation, as is Buckingham Palace for the Queen.

The official announcement of the move, after months of rumors, coincides with the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, William’s mother, in a car accident in Paris.