Prince William and Kate Middleton confirm Windsor move with £50k-a-year school fees
ok.co.ukPrince William and Kate Middleton are moving to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, Kensington Palace have said.The Duke and Duchess's children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will also be starting Lambrook School near Ascot in September.
Lambrook School reportedly costs around £19,000 a year. A statement from Kensington Palace read: “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have today announced that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will attend Lambrook School in Berkshire from September 2022. “Their Royal Highnesses are hugely grateful to Thomas’s Battersea where George and Charlotte have had a happy start to their education since 2017 and 2019 respectively and are pleased to have found a school for all three of their children which shares a similar ethos and values to Thomas’s.” The duke and duchess are seeking a life away from the goldfish bowl of their official residence Kensington Palace in west London in a bid to put their children first and give them more freedom.They had been known to have set their heart on outdoorsy prep school Lambrook, with its 52 acres of grounds, for their youngsters where fees will cost William and Kate in excess of £50,000 a year.The family will use the pretty 19th century Adelaide Cottage as their base after the Queen gave them permission to lease the four-bedroom Grade II listed cottage, which belongs to the Crown Estate.
It was built for Queen Adelaide in 1831 and is nestled just a 10-minute walk from Windsor Castle in the private Home Park. A royal source said: “This is very much a decision that two parents have made to give their children the ‘most normal’ start possible.
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