King Charles and Queen Consort: The place will the Royal household stay now?

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of King Charles III, nevertheless it’s thought that he intends to proceed dwelling at close by Clarence Home in the intervening time with main constructing work but to be accomplished on the palace.

Queen Elizabeth II died at her beloved vacation residence, Balmoral Citadel, in Scotland the place she had been staying since July 21. In recent times it had been regular for the Queen to spend August, September and a few of October at what’s thought to have been her favorite residence, usually inviting totally different members of her household and visitors to hitch her there at varied occasions.

Shortly after information of the Queen’s passing was introduced on Thursday 8 September, former Prime Minister Theresa Could informed Radio 4 that she loved visiting the Queen and the late Duke of Edinburgh at Balmoral Citadel on two totally different events and that the Queen went to nice lengths to make sure visitors felt at residence throughout their keep.

The royal household’s property strikes have been of giant significance in the previous couple of years — notably Prince William and Catherine’s current relocation to Windsor to be nearer to the Queen and their youngsters’s new faculty — but none will probably be larger than the transfer now confronted by the King and Queen Consort as they’re anticipated to make Buckingham Palace their official London residence in time.

Listed here are the primary properties lived in by the royal household, from Buckingham Palace to Highgrove Home.

Buckingham Palace: The King and Queen Consort

The King’s new London residence measures a colossal 828,821 sq ft and has 775 rooms set over 5 flooring.

There may be additionally a physician’s surgical procedure, a swimming pool and 40 acres of gardens in its prime central London location alongside St James and Mayfair.

The Royal Assortment Belief is liable for the care of the official residences of The King, together with Buckingham Palace and Windsor Citadel, in addition to Clarence Home, which was the official London residence of the King and Queen Consort after they had been often called the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.

It isn’t but identified if or when the King and Queen Consort will formally transfer to Buckingham Palace, although it has lengthy been reported that the King intends to create a ‘slimmed down’ Monarchy that might see him use a ‘flat above the store’ there — a lot in the way in which Prime Ministers are likely to stay in an residence at 10 or 11 Downing Avenue.

The late Queen’s dwelling quarters at Buckingham Palace included greater than 50 royal and visitor bedrooms, plus 188 workers bedrooms.

Buckingham Palace is present process a 10-year £369 million restoration and renovation. It’s thought that, when works are accomplished, the palace will probably be opened as much as the general public on a a lot better scale than in earlier years.

Clarence Home

King Charles and the Queen Consort’s official London residence till the demise of Elizabeth II yesterday.

Beside St James’s Palace on The Mall, it was the residence of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mom from 1953 till 2002 and it was additionally the house of Queen Elizabeth II, then Princess Elizabeth, and the Duke of Edinburgh following their marriage in 1947.

King Charles, who lived in the home till the age of three, had the interiors up to date by inside designer Robert Kime in 2002 and moved in on the anniversary of the Queen Mom’s start in August 2003.

After the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, King Charles returned to his transformed farmhouse – Llwynywermod – close to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

King Charles and the Queen Consort even have a personal residence in Scotland, on the Balmoral property, known as Birkhall.

Highgrove Home

Highgrove Home in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is King Charles and the Queen Consort’s household residence — near Princess Anne and the Tindalls at Gatcombe Park.

The home, backyard and close by farmland had been all bought in 1980 by the Duchy of Cornwall, and King Charles — then Prince Charles — moved in.

Constructed within the late 18^th century, the home has interiors by Robert Kime, who additionally adorned rooms at Clarence Home, and is used to host briefings and receptions. It has a specifically designed reed mattress sewage system which is used for all the home’s waste – and is supposedly cherished by dragonflies.

The home’s gardens had been meant, as King Charles as soon as stated, to “please the attention and sit in concord with nature”. The gardens are open to the general public between April and October, and entice as much as 40,000 guests per yr.

For essentially the most half, King Charles and the Queen Consort have cut up their time between Highgrove and Clarence Home lately.

Now the Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge, Prince William stands to inherit the Duchy of Cornwall — a personal property arrange by Edward III in 1337 to supply earnings for the inheritor to the throne. Ought to King Charles and the Queen Consort maintain Highgrove Home as their household residence it’s seemingly they’d be paying lease to the Duchy of Cornwall.

Windsor Property: The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge

Windsor Citadel

After the demise of the Duke of Edinburgh in April 2021, the Queen introduced a everlasting transfer to Windsor Citadel, the place she and the Duke had spent lockdown collectively.

The 900-year-old fortress was beforehand used as her weekend escape from 775-room Buckingham Palace. With 1,000 rooms, it’s the largest occupied fortress on the planet.

The Queen was distraught when a hearth broke out on the fortress in 1992, destroying 115 rooms and 9 state rooms. Art work was saved by teams of workers however the fireplace was catastrophic for the palace’s interiors and construction.

The Duke of Edinburgh performed a key position within the restoration of Windsor Citadel, which had not been insured, with works costing round £70 million in right now’s cash — and largely funded by entrance charges to the property in addition to Buckingham Palace.

Adelaide Cottage: The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge and their youngsters have relocated from Kensington Palace to Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Property.

The household’s new four-bedroom house is a brief stroll from the late Queen’s residence at Windsor Citadel, and significantly extra modest than their four-storey, 22-room residence in Kensington.

Adelaide Cottage was modernised in 2015 so, not like their Kensington Palace residence, gained’t require an enormous renovation earlier than the household can transfer in. It’s additionally been made clear that the household is not going to have live-in workers.

Regal options on the residence are stated to incorporate gold-gilded dolphins on the master suite ceiling, together with rope ornament recycled from a nineteenth century royal yacht.

In contrast to Sandringham Home and Balmoral Citadel, Adelaide Cottage was not owed by Queen Elizabeth II. Buckingham Palace and Windsor Citadel are owned by the Crown Property.

Frogmore Cottage: The Brooksbanks and The Sussexes

One other luxurious royal residence with a deceptively humble identify, Frogmore Cottage is a Grade II-listed Georgian home additionally within the grounds of Windsor Citadel.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to the property from in 2019, spending £2.4 million on renovations to show the 5 separate residences into one residence.

Following the Sussexes’ transfer to Montecito, California, Frogmore Cottage was gifted to Princess Eugenie, Jack Brooksbank and their son August on the situation that the Sussexes would keep there on visits to the UK. Accordingly, that is the place they stayed for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations.

The Brooksbanks are stated to be splitting their time between the UK and Portugal.

In the meantime, Ivy Cottage, Eugenie and Jack’s former residence on the Kensington Palace grounds is regarded as empty at current – as is Nottingham Cottage, Harry and Meghan’s earlier residence, additionally at Kensington Palace.

Kensington Palace

Residence 1A: the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge

Much less an residence and extra a four-storey luxurious residence, this residence was given to William and Kate by the Queen as a marriage current in 2011. It’s the place they lived with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis till their transfer to the Windsor Property this summer season.

Earlier than they moved in to Kensington Palace, 1A underwent an huge renovation, which reportedly value £4.5 million.

Of that, £600,000 was spent on substitute of the constructing’s plumbing and boilers, rewiring and removing of asbestos. £400,000 went on roof repairs, because it had not been upgraded because the Nineteen Sixties.

William and Kate opted for a extra open-plan structure, decreasing the variety of rooms from 30 to 22. They included two nurseries, three kitchens, a drawing room, workers quarters and workplaces for a few of Princess Diana’s charities.

Upgrades to royal properties like Kensington Palace are financed by the Sovereign Grant. This comes from the federal government, and covers official duties and working prices, together with constructing upkeep. It’s calculated as a proportion of income from the Crown Property, which is the most important property proprietor within the West Finish.

Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Property is assumed to have been chosen as their new residence in order that they could possibly be nearer to the Queen, for causes of privateness and to keep away from the busy faculty run.

One other property on the Windsor property, Fort Belvedere is the Queen’s “forgotten fortress” in Surrey, constructed between 1750 and 1755 and owned by the Crown Property. The 59-acre fort is the place Edward VIII signed his abdication discover. It had been instructed as a possible future residence for Prince William’s household, however it appears they’ve determined to stay on the way more modest Adelaide Cottage for now.

Balmoral Citadel: The Queen

Balmoral Property in Aberdeenshire is the place the Queen often spent August, September and a few of October. This yr, the Queen travelled to Balmoral on July 21 and, for the primary time, had audiences along with her outgoing and incoming Prime Ministers there quite than at Buckingham Palace.

Balmoral, like Sandringham Property, the place a home has simply been listed for lease on Airbnb, is a personal residence quite than a royal residence owned by the Crown Property.

Sandringham Property

Privately owned by the late Queen Elizabeth II, the 20,000-acre Sandringham Property has been within the royal household for greater than a century and can now cross to King Charles III.

Sandringham Home has a Grade II itemizing. The Queen used to remain there from Christmas till mid-February most years, with shut members of the royal household becoming a member of her for the festive season.

Amner Corridor

A Georgian home within the village of Amner, Norfolk, on the Sandringham Property.

The ten-bedroom residence was given to Prince William and Catherine by Queen Elizabeth II after their marriage ceremony in 2011. It’s thought the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge will proceed to make use of it as a vacation hideaway regardless of having lately moved into Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Property.

Gatcombe Park: Princess Anne and the Tindalls

The Tindalls stay on Princess Anne’s 700-acre Gloucestershire property, Gatcombe Park. They moved there in 2013, after promoting their residence in Cheltenham – a indifferent, Grade II-listed townhouse known as Hallery Home which bought for £1.2 million.

The property’s foremost constructing (additionally Grade II-listed) is Princess Anne and her husband Sir Timothy Laurence’s residence. It was bought by the Queen as a marriage present for her daughter Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, in 1976.

Constructed within the late 18^th century, Gatcombe Park was remodelled in 1820 by architect George Basevi, who added a conservatory, single-storey wings, a porch, stables and a coach home.

The property can also be a working farm, with some 230 sheep, 20 cows and a pair of pigs, and hosts the annual Pageant of British Eventing, with Zara Tindall as an everyday competitor.

Bagshot Park: the Wessexes

This 19^th century mansion set on 51 acres of land in Surrey is the place Prince Edward, Sophie Wessex and their two youngsters stay.

The couple moved to the property after they married in 1999, following an intensive renovation. It was leased by the Crown Property to Prince Edward for 50 years initially, and has since been prolonged to 150 years by the couple.

Initially, the property comprised of various lodges designed for King Charles I. The unique home was demolished in 1877 and rebuilt two years later for the Duke of Connaught, considered one of Queen Victoria’s sons, with round 120 rooms.

It grew to become the regimental headquarters for the Royal Military Chaplain’s division for 50 years following the Second World Struggle – till the Wessexes arrived.