{"id":124968,"date":"2025-09-01T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124968\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:48:08","slug":"drama-over-prince-william-and-princess-kates-overwhelming-move-and-new-homes-dark-past-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124968\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama Over Prince William and Princess Kate\u2019s \u2018Overwhelming\u2019 Move and New Home\u2019s \u2018Dark\u2019 Past (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prince William and Princess Kate are ready to begin the next chapter of their lives in their new home \u2014 but their fresh start has come with big challenges, a source tells Examiner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">William and Kate, both 43, \u201chave been involved in every little detail as they prepare their dream home and it\u2019s been a lot to handle,\u201d a source says of the pair, who have<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/17\/uk\/william-kate-new-home-windsor-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced plans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> announced plans<\/a> to relocate their family \u2014 including Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7 \u2014 from Adelaide Cottage to nearby Forest Lodge, this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Not only does the eight-bedroom Georgian mansion, which is on the grounds of Windsor Great Park,\u00a0need renovation, but two families who were living in cottages near the home were reportedly asked to move to other properties on the estate earlier this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kate-middleton-prince-william-move-from-adelaide-cottage-families-asked-to-vacate-homes-11792328\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:per People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">per People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">William and Kate \u201chelped find new housing for those people,\u201d the source tells Examiner, \u201cand as you can imagine, it\u2019s eaten up a lot of time \u2014 and there\u2019s still so much more to do before they can move in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pair have been fitting in the extra work while keeping up with their busy royal schedules. \u201cThey\u2019re still doing all their scheduled engagements but there\u2019s a sense from some senior royals that they\u2019re a bit too distracted,\u201d says the source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With King Charles III undergoing continued cancer treatment, adds the source, they\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/princess-kate-under-enormous-amount-214335335.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:expected;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expected<\/a> to step up even more. \u201cIt can be overwhelming at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;AiWire\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"623\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0d0978d13a8d42e695700730e82ff727.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> AiWire\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another complication is Forest Lodge itself. Locals have expressed concerns that their new abode, which is located closer to a main public road, won\u2019t be as private as Adelaide Cottage, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/royal\/kate-middleton-prince-william-forest-lodge-privacy-neighbour-royal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:GB News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> GB News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOn top of all that, the history of the house is quite dark, which has got to be weighing on them,\u201d says the source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-15028067\/The-dark-past-William-Kates-forever-home-Slavery-links-equerry-blew-brains-royal-break-up.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the DailyMail,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the DailyMail,<\/a> Spencer Mackay, who owned the 300-year-old home in the early 1800s, made his fortune from South American coffee and rum plantations, fueled by slave labor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Forest Lodge was also the site of Edward VIII\u2019s equerry Sir John Aird\u2019s death by suicide in 1973, reports the outlet.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Will WARR \/ KENSINGTON PALACE&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"534\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6f11b669e79b846f1955dd8e2bcfaa23.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Will WARR \/ KENSINGTON PALACE<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Still, the Waleses are eager to move forward from their own dark times, says the source, noting that Kate\u2019s cancer battle was waged during their time at Adelaide Cottage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They\u2019re confident that Forest Lodge will become their \u201cdream home,\u201d says the source. \u201cIt certainly hasn\u2019t been smooth sailing, but they\u2019re forging ahead and saying all the hard work will be worth it in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William and Princess Kate are ready to begin the next chapter of their lives in their new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[79886,236,88,79884,10635,79885,5434,34342,2152,24636],"class_list":{"0":"post-124968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adelaide-cottage","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-forest-lodge","12":"tag-prince-george","13":"tag-prince-louis","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-charlotte","16":"tag-princess-kate","17":"tag-william-and-kate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}