Look inside Prince Charles and Camilla’s modest Welsh bolthole with high street furniture

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When you’ve spent most of your life in drafty castles and chilly palaces, a cosy and rather modest holiday home must be quite the tonic.

Prince Charles and Camilla’s Welsh cottage, tucked away in the hills of Carmarthenshire, is their private haven. It’s also very much a family affair. “Camilla’s sister Annabel Elliot decorated it for them,” reveals royal expert Ingrid Seward. “It’s very special to them, and it just looks so pretty.” Despite this three-bedroomed farmhouse being the most down-to-earth of royal residences, the site on which it’s built did have lofty beginnings, owned centuries ago by a chap with the curious name of William Williams, who was a relative of Anne Boleyn.

Charles and Camilla’s home used to be the coach house to a 13-bedroom mansion owned by a family of barons called the Griffies-Williams, which itself is now in ruins.

The prince paid £1.2 million for the property, which also includes three cottages and a Grade II-listed barn, and called on the services of architect Craig Hamilton to convert it, using traditional building techniques.