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Kate Middleton and Prince William's sleeping arrangement at their home in Kensington Palace is rather unusual as they don't get their heads down in an upstairs bedroom.

The Prince and Princess of Wales' sleeping arrangements when they are at Kensington Palace are slightly different than what you might expect, as they don't sleep in an upstairs bedroom like most couples.The couple are intensely private and don't talk about their home life, but a floor plan of their home in Apartment 1A of the iconic London building shows where the bedrooms are. While the couple and their three children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five, relocated to Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Estate in September 2022, their former home - which is still listed as the family's official residence - has always been a bit puzzling.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have multiple homes, but they can usually be found residing at Kensington Palace in Apartment 1A, with their three children. Prince William, 39, and Kate, 40, have called the property home since 2013, and had it completely transformed to their tastes prior to moving in with their first child, Prince George, eight.

Vanity Fair, royal historian Christopher Warwick said: “And when he got tired of playing train sets with them, it’s famously known that he said: ‘Let’s go and jump the nets on the tennis courts.’“And Princess Elizabeth was just overwhelmed [by Philip], really. Her governess, Marion Crawford, recorded [in her diary] that Elizabeth said: ‘See how he jumps.”The Queen had already seen Philip, or the Duke had seen her, due to them being third cousins through Queen Victoria.Philip was also known as the Prince of Greece and would have seen the Queen at certain events over the years.However, this meeting saw the pair acknowledge each other for the first time and would lead to them bumping into each other at the royal quarters and the two were even known to have exchanged correspondences.Mr Warwick explained that some of Philip’s family were encouraging him to marry the future heir to the throne.In 1944, with Elizabeth still a teenager, Philip‘s uncle Lord Mountbatten asked her father, King George VI about marriage between the two.Mr Warwick said the King’s reply was: ‘She’s much too young.

So, Kate Middleton and Prince William’s Kensington Palace home is often described as an apartment—but let’s just say that if you’re a city dweller, this descriptor couldn’t possibly be further from your truth. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, both 38, have a home that royal experts are calling absolutely “enormous.”

) royal author Christopher Warwick said that Kate and William's home is "has 20 rooms from the basement to the attic," and "it is not a small house."He also discouraged people from assuming the place is modest based on the "apartment" title, cause, uh, it's not. "All of these royal residences at Kensington Palace are called apartments, which of course makes people immediately think they are flats like the American term for an apartment.