Marie Claire reports. The family will eventually move to the Castle but, for now, they are reportedly happy at the Cottage. A friend told People, that theirs is a life of a “modern royal family doing normal things.
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Following the death of the Queen, Prince William inherited a sprawling country estate King Charles originally bought for his son to settle into family life.
The country estate in Herefordshire was acquired by the Duchy of Cornwall when William was still at university as Charles hoped his eldest son would start a family of his own in the home. However, William had other plans and development at Harewood End, which included rebuilding a grand mansion that was demolished by the SAS, soon halted.
As Gloucestershire Live reports, William has now inherited the lot as part of the £1bn Duchy of Cornwall estate - and could, if he chose, restart plans to build a grand country house on the land. The Duchy acquired the 900-acre run down estate in 2000, and a few years later work started on an ambitious £8-£9 million renovation of farmhouses, cottages and other agricultural buildings, writes the Mirror.
As William graduated from St Andrews University where he was living in a shared house with Kate Middleton, architect Craig Hamilton designed a Georgian-style mansion, complete with columns, for the pair. The plans for a mansion house in the countryside were approved by Herefordshire Council planners in November 2004, but Charles scrapped the project.
Speaking at the time, a Duchy spokesman said: " Although planning consent for a statement house was granted some time ago, the Duchy never took it forward. The regeneration project at Harewood Park is now complete and the estate comprises a number of let residential and office units in converted barns, together with farmland."
When plans were revealed to build a grand mansion as a centrepiece for the estate, it was rumoured that Charles would give it to William and his then-girlfriend
Marie Claire reports. The family will eventually move to the Castle but, for now, they are reportedly happy at the Cottage. A friend told People, that theirs is a life of a “modern royal family doing normal things.
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married Camilla, 75, in 2005 — nine years after his divorce from the late Princess Diana.Angela Levin, author of the new book, “Camilla: From Outcast to Queen Consort,” wrote how William, 40, has framed his children’s relationship to Camilla.“William nonetheless has made it clear that Camilla is the wife of his father, but not a step-grandmother to his children, and that Prince George, his sister Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have two grandfathers, but only one grandmother,” Levin wrote.Kate Middleton’s parents, Michael and Carole, are grandparents to their children with Charles, 73, as grandfather.William’s mother Diana died in a car crash in 1997. She and Charles married in 1981 and divorced in 1996.Charles and Camilla had an on-again/off-again relationship throughout their lives.
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