When they are king and queen, Charles and Camilla will live in Buckingham Palace

The Camilla knot has just disbanded: when Charles will be the king his wife, at the behest of Elizabeth II, will be queen. But when their time comes, where will the new rulers of England live? A friend of the Prince of Wales has no doubts: “Charles’s home will be Buckingham Palace“. So he assured the Daily Mail, wiping out mountains of speculation. For years in fact it was said that Charles would never move to Buckingham Palace, because he does not like the palace: he considers it too big and too impersonal. Therefore, the royal experts speculated, he will choose to stay at Clarence House, the home inherited from his beloved grandmother, the Queen Mother. In recent months it was even said that Charles, intending when he will be king a to streamline the British monarchy and its costs, he wanted to turn Buckingham into a museum. The 775-room palace, in fact, has monstrous maintenance costs: the last restoration, approved in 2016, should be completed in 2027 for the not exactly modest sum of five hundred million dollars (funded by UK taxpayers).

The Palace can be visited since 1993, usually in the summer, when the sovereign is far from London, but not all: only a part of the 775 rooms is accessible to visitors, except for those private of the family. The income from more frequent visits would certainly be able to amortize the costs: who wouldn’t be curious to visit His Majesty’s secret chambers? The source of the Daily Mailhowever, he ensured that this scenario will never happen: «Carlo is firmly convinced that Buckingham Palace both the Visible symbol of the monarchy in London. And that therefore it must be her house “. The Palace will also be his «office“And will remain open to visitors, because” it is an extremely important tourist attraction “:” But the prince at the same time can live there, just as he does in Highgrove, which is open to the public. “

Cause Covid-19 and renovations, For two years, no member of the royal family has lived in Buckingham: it had never happened before that the palace was used only as an office and not as a home. The queen has lived mostly at Windsor Castle for the past two years and in this same amount of time neither the prince Andrew nor the princess Anna, who have apartments in the building, were able to use them. When Charles is king, it seems, he will return to his former glory. The Queen’s son, as his friend explains, believes Buckingham Palace would make no sense if it weren’t inhabited by royalty. To begin with, doubts would immediately arise about the changing of the guard ceremonywhich is one of London’s major tourist attractions: “What sense would it put on such a colorful spectacle for an empty building?”

There seems to be no doubt: when Charles and Camilla will be the kings of England, their residence will be Buckingham Palace. Instead they remain doubts about the future home of Kate Middleton And William. In recent days it was said that the dukes, who currently live in Kensington Palace, intended to move with their three children George, Charlotte Louis, to Fort Belvedere, a Gothic-style building just outside London. According to Daily Mailinstead, Carlo would like them to move to Clarence House. To carry out a project that you have been longing for: transform Kensington Palace into a permanent home for the treasures of the Royal Collection.

William and Kate to the future king would have answered spades: they have no desire to move from Kensington Palace to Clarence House. They transformed the slightly dated apartment where the late Princess Margaret lived into a comfortable, modern home where they happily settled down with her three children. And this is the place William considers home. Because there, as a kid, he lived his best years: those with his mother Diana.