Kate Middleton and Prince William's royal plan "has clearly gone out the window" as they leave London for Windsor, a columnist claims.
The Cambridge family appear set to up sticks and relocate from the extensively refurbished Kensington Palace to Adelaide Cottage on the Queen's Berkshire estate.
According to royal writer Daniela Elser, moving from the capital "essentially means they have wasted millions and millions of Sovereign Grant money" of modernising Kensington Palace.The reported £4million spent on the Cambridge's home of Apartment 1A was funded by 25% of revenue from the Crown estates that the royal family keeps largely for maintaining property.
William and Kate also dug into their own pockets to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of their own money on further renovations and the interiors.All this was done with the idea that the Cambridges would stay rooted at the palace for many more years to come, Ms Elser says.
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