Princess Kate and Prince William’s ‘secret love nest’ that sealed the royal deal revealed
The Prince and Princess of Wales may live happily with their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, which is very close to Windsor Castle and the rest of the Royal Family, but that wasn’t always the case.
Prince William and Princess Kate once lived very remotely on the island of Anglesey, Wales long before the future King even popped the question.
The royal couple began dating shortly after meeting at St Andrews University in Scotland for the first time in 2001, and following a brief break in 2007, they snatched up a new love nest off the north-west coast of Wales, where they spent some of the most precious moments of their relationship, like their engagement, their wedding and the birth of their firstborn son.
Kate and William spent three years in Anglesey from 2010 to 2013, due to the prince’s job as a search and rescue pilot with the Royal Air Force.
Now, more details of the couple’s stay at the remote island have emerged due to Robert Jobson’s new book, Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography, released last month.
The author claimed that after William was posted to RAF Valley, Anglesey, the future Queen “ruled out a long-distance relationship” and the couple went on to rent a house together for £750 a month.
William and Kate settled at a four-bedroom farmhouse near his base, on the estate of country home Bodorgan Hall.
While William served as a search and rescue Sea King helicopter pilot, Kate worked remotely for her family’s business as a web designer.
During a farewell visit to Anglesey in 2013, the Prince of Wales spoke fondly of his time in Anglesey.
He said: “This island has been our first home together, and will always be an immensely special place for us both.
“Catherine and I look forward to returning again and again over the coming years with our family.
I know that I speak for Catherine when I say that I have never in my life known somewhere as beautiful and as welcoming as Anglesey.”
However, his wife’s experience was slightly different as she spoke about feeling “isolated” as a first-time mother.
During a visit to the Ely and Caerau Children’s Centre in Cardiff in 2020, Kate said: “I was chatting to some of the mums, I had just had George and William was still working with search and rescue, so we came up here when George was a tiny, tiny little baby, in the middle of Anglesey.
It was so isolated, so cut off, I didn’t have my family around me, he was doing night shifts, so if only I’d had a centre like this at a certain time.”
The Wales family moved to Kensington Palace in London in 2013 where they lived until 2022 when they moved to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor.
