All About Adelaide Cottage, Kate Middleton and Prince William’s Former Home

Ariana QuihuizSat, August 22, 2026 at 10:02 AM UTC

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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in Paris on March 17, 2017; Adelaide Cottage.Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty; MediaPunch/BACKGRID -

Prince William and Kate Middleton moved out of Adelaide Cottage in 2025

The couple relocated to Forest Lodge, an eight-bedroom property in Windsor Great Park

Adelaide Cottage was originally built in 1831 as a royal retreat and is located just half a mile from Windsor Castle

Kate Middleton and Prince William lived at Adelaide Cottage for more than three years.

The cottage was originally built in 1831 as a retreat for royals rather than a full-time residence. The four-bedroom property is located inside Windsor Great Park and is just half a mile from Windsor Castle, which was Queen Elizabeth’s primary home.

In summer 2022, William and Kate moved to the cottage after leaving their home at Kensington Palace in London. A family friend told PEOPLE at the time that the couple appreciated that Windsor’s “little community,” adding that the couple also “love that the kids can go out on their bikes and cycle around the estate.”

However, the Prince and Princess of Wales relocated from Adelaide Cottage to Forest Lodge in late 2025. Their new residence is only four miles away from the historic cottage.

Here’s everything to know about Adelaide Cottage, the former home of Kate Middleton and Prince William.

It was built in 1831

Adelaide Cottage.Credit: Invicta Kent Media/Shutterstock

Adelaide Cottage was built by architect Sir Jeffry Wyatville in 1831, per Royal Palaces. A keeper’s lodge was originally located on the cottage’s grounds, but King William IV had Wyatville convert it into a summer house for his wife, Queen Adelaide.

The residence was aptly named after the Queen and was crafted from pieces of the Royal Lodge, which had been partially demolished by the monarch. King William IV also had a garden added to the property by Thomas Ingram, who laid out rose bushes and shrubbery around the cottage.

While renovating Adelaide Cottage, Wyatville was also working on Windsor Castle. He’s responsible for creating the Waterloo Chamber and increasing the height of the Round Tower by 30 feet, per the College of St. George.

Queen Victoria favored the cottage

Queen Victoria of England.Credit: Imagno/Getty

Queen Victoria often visited the cottage for breakfast or tea during her reign, per the Royal Collection Trust. She favored the property so much that she even had her beloved King Charles spaniel, Dash, buried on the property.

The grave features a marble effigy, which includes the inscription, “Here lies DASH, The favourite spaniel of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, In his 10th year, His attachment was without selfishness, His playfulness without malice, His fidelity without deceit, READER, If you would be beloved and die regretted, Profit by the example of DASH,” according to the Royal Collection Trust.

Another famous resident of Adelaide Cottage was Group Captain Peter Townsend, who had a relationship with Princess Margaret in the 1950s. He first moved into the property in 1944 when he was King George VI’s equerry, per Tatler.

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It’s a four-bedroom home

The cottage is only a 10-minute walk away from Windsor Castle, per the BBC. It’s a two-story home with four bedrooms and seven gated entrances, but the property is rarely photographed.

The main bedroom of Adelaide Cottage features ornate decor, including gilded dolphins and rope ornament from the HMY Royal George, according to Historic England.

There is also an abandoned lodge located on the property, Adelaide Lodge, which was deemed uninhabitable due to an unstable structure, per Hello!. The two properties share a driveway.

Kate Middleton and Prince William relocated to the cottage in 2022

Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are greeted by Headmaster Jonathan Perry at Lambrook School in Bracknell, England on September 7, 2022.Credit: Jonathan Brady - Pool/Getty

Kate and William moved into Adelaide Cottage with their children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — in the summer of 2022. The pair relocated to the cottage from their home in Kensington Palace.

At the St. Patrick’s Day parade in March 2025, Princess Kate told soldiers they also wished to be closer to nature. “We are in Windsor at the moment,” she said. “We were in London but moved there for more green space. It’s close enough to London, not too far away.”

Prince William also wanted to move to be closer to Queen Elizabeth before her death in September 2022. The Prince of Wales “knew his time with his grandmother was precious and he is delighted they, as a couple, made that decision,” Robert Jobson wrote in his biography Catherine, Princess of Wales.

“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,” Jobson continued. “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.”

They moved out of the cottage in 2025

Forest Lodge, formerly known as Holly Grove, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire.Credit: English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty

However, more than three years later in 2025, Kate and William moved out of the cottage and relocated to Forest Lodge, which is also located in Windsor Great Park. Their move to the eight-bedroom residence signaled a new start for the family, who had experienced Queen Elizabeth’s death and Kate’s cancer diagnosis while living in the cottage.

“Adelaide Cottage was a place of pain, suffering and sadness. After such rough times it’s perfectly understandable they would want a new place,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith told PEOPLE in December 2025. Royal historian Amanda Foreman added that the pair were “signaling a different kind of lifestyle” that is “very centered on their children.”

The royal couple signed a 20-year lease on Forest Lodge and plan to live on the property even after William accedes to the throne.

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