WhenPrince HarryandMeghan Marklesettle intotheir new home in Windsor— any day now! — it will mark a major new chapter in their life together.
The parents-to-be, whomarried at Windsor Castleone year ago in May and areexpecting their first child at the end of April, view the move as an escape from the “fish bowl” aspects of life in London’s Kensington Palace, a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.
Settling in Windsor, some 25 miles west of London, “is a really healthy thing to do,” says a longtime friend, noting that the rigid life at the palace, wherePrince William, Princess Kate and their three children live, is not for all.
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“I presume it must be nice to get out and away,” the friend says oftheir newly renovated residence, Frogmore Cottage. “Without neighbors who are all either family or staff [at Kensington Palace], they will now have their own thing.”
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“It has the most amazing mulberry walk, where we would pick mulberries forPrince Philip‘s mulberry gin,” says a former palace staffer. “And when the Queen is there on a Sunday afternoon, it is a five-minute walk up the hill for tea with Granny. It is gorgeous. They will be able to sit on their front lawn and hear the sound of wood on willow of the cricket match.”
source: people.com
