The impending move of Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton has displaced two families from their homes so that the family can have more privacy, Fox News reported.
The family of five will move to Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park later this year. The new home has eight bedrooms and is in close proximity to their current four-bedroom home, Adelaide Cottage, where they moved in 2022.
The couple's three children, George, 12, Charlotte, 10, and Louis, 7, attend Lambrook co-ed prep school in the nearby area.
In the process of renovating the property for the Wales family's arrival, a source told Fox News Digital that two families living close to the lodge were asked to relocate.
"They were told to move out," the source claimed. "I guess they were given somewhere else, but they were told they had to move. They were not expecting it.
"Those houses are very close to the Lodge, so they're not going to want any Tom, Dick, or Harry living in those houses if there are going to be royals there."
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams stressed that the displaced tenant families were given similar or better lodgings on the Crown Estate, the same 4,800 acre development where they had lived.
"They were reportedly in close proximity to the Lodge," Fitzwilliams explained. "The Prince and Princess of Wales need shelter from the enormous pressures of royal life with a media circus watching everything they do."
New shrubs were planted and a fence with black mesh privacy screens was recently installed at the lodge so that the family would not be intruded upon when they move in.
Fox News said that the family is paying for the renovations themselves. As heir to the throne, William receives $30 million per year or so from the Dutchy of Cornwall.
Royal expert Ian Pelham Turner said there have been some skeptics saying the estate is not "grand enough" for a future king, but the move could signal a change to a humbler way of life for royal families.
The Wales family is expected to keep living at the lodge even after William ascends to the throne.
Both Kate and her father-in-law, King Charles III, 76, battled cancer in 2024, but Kate is now in remission, while the king continues treatments.
Some have reported that his health is deteriorating, but he has returned to royal duties and said in July that he is feeling "fine."
