Prince William and Kate Middleton’s $21 Million Home—Everything You Need to Know

Prince William and Kate Middleton are gearing up for one last move just a few miles down the road from their current home, Adelaide Cottage. Situated in Great Windsor Park, Forest Lodge will host the Wales family just in time for Christmas, if all goes to plan, and many more holidays after that.

“This is a move for the long-term,” one insider told The Sun when news of the family’s move first broke. “They see it as their forever home.”

With eight bedrooms and six bathrooms, Forest Lodge is roughly double the size of Adelaide Cottage. The property is also even more “isolated” than their previous home, given that it is further from Windsor Castle and nestled deeper in the private grounds of Great Windsor Park.

The couple’s previous homes include Kensington Palace, where they lived on and off from 2013 to 2022, and Adelaide Cottage, where the family of five currently resides. William and Kate first lived together as roommates at St. Andrews University and rented a home in Anglesey, Wales, when William was stationed there as a Royal Air Force pilot. Ahead, everything you should know about the Prince and Princess of Wales’s future “forever home,” Forest Lodge.

Forest Lodge is over 250 years old.

Forest Lodge was built by non-royals in 1770 and acquired by the Crown on June 27, 1829 (as of 2025, that makes it 255 years old). The property was then known as Holly Grove, presumably because its original owner, Spencer Mackay, owned multiple sugar plantations in the Caribbean, including one called Cane Grove.

In her 1997 book Royal Landscape: The Gardens and Parks of Windsor, Jane Roberts reported that Sir John Aird, who lived in the mansion in the mid-20th century, found the name “distasteful.” It was thus renamed Forest Lodge in 1937.

It’s only four miles from Adelaide Cottage.

Adelaide Cottage and Forest Lodge are located nearby and yet not quite on the same property; while the former is in Windsor Home Park, the latter is in the adjacent Great Windsor Park. Still, the two homes are only four miles apart.

This closeness represents a marked difference from their last move, which saw the family of five relocate from Kensington Palace all the way to Adelaide Cottage (a roughly 24-mile trip from the center of London to Windsor). Recall that the move “surprised a lot of people” when they left the big city in 2022.

“Being able to live in the middle of Windsor Home Park, where they’re not overlooked and can come and go in complete privacy, makes the downsize from Kensington Palace worth it on every level,” royal author Katie Nicholl told OK magazine at the time.

Princess Anne almost lived there instead.

Apparently Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, considered moving into Forest Lodge after they married in 1973. A report from The Daily Telegraph from December 1975, two years after Anne married, stated that she had considered the property.

The newlyweds moved into Oak Grove House, a five-bedroom Georgian house located at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, instead. Then, in 1976, they relocated to the Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire, where Anne still lives today. (The couple divorced in 1992.)

It’s an “isolated” property.

And the Wales family likes it that way. Moreover, the move represents something of a “fresh start” for the family, who experienced “three really tough years” that included the death of Queen Elizabeth II and Kate Middleton and King Charles’s dual cancer diagnoses.

“They are looking forward to creating many happy memories in their new home and leaving some of the unhappier ones behind,” a source told The Daily Mail.

“It’s about as isolated as you can get there, so you can see the attraction for them,” another insider added. “It’s situated in a huge private chunk of Windsor Great Park, and the children can go out cycling for miles and not come anywhere near any of the local residents. There’s a nearby fishing lake that’s open only to staff, but that’s it. It’s also a lot closer—probably a 15-minute drive—to their current school.”

Prince William and Kate Middleton are renovating.

According to The Sun, William and Kate “are paying for the move and rent at no extra cost to the taxpayer.” The property is currently undergoing “minor internal and external renovations” in the hopes that the family can move in by Christmas. “Kate has already been spotted picking new furniture to kit out the new abode, including a 24-seater table,” the outlet reported.

They plan to live there long-term.

Indeed, the property has been dubbed their “forever home” by royal insiders, and it seems that the Wales family will remain there even once Prince William is crowed King. This break in tradition would make William the first monarch since medieval times to not live in a castle or a palace.

“The late Queen said she had to be seen to be believed,” one source told The Daily Mail. “I just hope that the Prince of Wales can find the right balance between raising his family away from the public glare at Windsor with the presence required of him as a future, and eventual, head of state.”