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Prince William and Kate to Live in Royal Mansion

prince william kate middletonLike many young couples, Prince William and Kate Middleton are preparing for a spring wedding. But unlike most newlyweds, the royal-couple-to-be will have their first home already picked out: Clarence House, worth more than $76 million. Sara Firshein of Curbed.com has the very British details. Check out the gallery of interior photos below. Also, read about their honeymoon plans in our previous post, "Prince William and Kate Middleton to Rent Cottage."


Kate Middleton has lived in decent houses from childhood, but marrying a royal takes that whole quality-of-life thing to astronomical heights. Our friends at British real estate site Zoopla write in with a new set of stats that promise to make all 29-year-olds reading this feel even worse about their crappy one-bedroom apartments: Clarence House, where Middleton and Prince William will live once married, is valued at more than $76.68M and worth 343 times the average newlywed starter home ($223,282) in England. Sticking it further are the following stats about Windsor Castle, the royal country retreat (and the largest occupied castle in the world): it's valued at $279M and boasts more than 1,000 rooms over 484,000 square feet.

Eventually King William and his queen will move into Buckingham Palace, which, as the world's most valuable private residence, is currently valued at $1.6B. Kids these days!









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Caleb Calhoun

Except none of the Palaces are "Private Residences"... They are state property.

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JACEYRYAN39

Kate and Prince William I thought I was signing out on comment 326, but it didn't come out that way. I have nothing but good things to say about both of you. I can't wait to watch your wedding on TV. Thank you for letting us do that. Your so unselfish. So classy, elegant and I think your both wonderful people. GOD BLESS YOU BOTH.

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JACEYRYAN39

Prince Harry and Kate, I wish you the happiest of lives to be. God be with you and your family. I do hope that people will leave you alone personally and let you live your life and be happy. Oh how I can't wait to just watch your wedding on TV. Thank you for letting us watch it. It means so much just to be able to do that. I know it will be beautiful and elegant. Kate is beautiful and Prince William is so handsome. You both appear to be so well adjusted and mature. Kate if I had it, I would pay anything to have beautiful teeth like yours. I just can't find anything wrong with your looks or anything else. LOL.... GOD BLESS.... JaceyRyan39

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Laura Lynn

JACEYRYAN39, Prince Harry is NOT Kate's fiance. Prince William and Kate are engaged to be married and Prince Harry, Williams younger brother, is going to be Williams Best Man. Yes, if you are not up on your Royals it can get quite confusing, but we all know you mean well and we wish to add our well wishes with yours.

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LIFE HOPE PEACE

I WISH GODS BLESSING WE NEED MORE OF CHRIST IN THE WORLD I DO HOPE SHE HELPS PEOPLE LIKE HIS MOTHER DID BLESS YOU S COLAHAN HARRIS PA

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rtinlizzie

Everyone needs to read khod3' s comment...wake up time !

Yesterday at 12:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yolanda

Does anyone else think that Kate looks like a young Lee Merrither from "Barnaby Jones" and as the Cat Woman from an old "Bat Man"?

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luegal39

Could it be that the Obamas are not invited because he commited a social gaff by returning their gift of the bust of Churchill. Or maybe, it was because, he displayed his outsized ego by giving recordings of his speeches for his gift to the Queen. How embarrassing! He doesn't know the basics of courtesy.

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Elrancho

You couldn't be more wrong. The days of social gaffs ended when Bush left the white house. President Obama is the classiest President or politician I have ever known and if you want to know why he and the first lady were not invited, here is the answer. They let it be known that it would be better not for them to be invited as the security requirements would make it a day about them rather than a day about the royal couple. The Obamas are so liked by the Queen that she has invited them personally for a second state visit later in the year. So, try to get your facts right before displaying your ignorance.

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Elrancho

You couldn't be more wrong. The days of social gaffs ended when Bush left the white house. President Obama is the classiest President or politician I have ever known and if you want to know why he and the first lady were not invited, here is the answer. They let it be known that it would be better not for them to be invited as the security requirements would make it a day about them rather than a day about the royal couple. The Obamas are so liked by the Queen that she has invited them personally for a second state visit later in the year. So, try to get your facts right before displaying your ignorance.

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khod3

OK everyone, as an American and one whose family fled that lunatic land of serfs of Royal doofuses then fought two wars against them like the War of 1812 when they BURNED DOWN OUR CAPITAL Washington DC I would like to inform you all they are the terrorists and have bought us back. Barclays Bank in london now owns most of the stock in our private Federal Reserve Banks and all our kids in the army are dying so their bankers can control oil pools etc. We could just have the corrupt Congress end their private Fed/IRS scam and the CIA and all the other nonsense and have the US Treasury merely issue debt free currency like Lincoln and Kennedy did and tell these so-called "Royals" to take a hike and find somebody else to do their dirty work. Nuking them all might be what it takes because supporting a bunch of lords(banksters) in london and these spoiled fruitcakes has ruined and bankrupted the United States. Banksters going all the way to london and Rothchild with these idiots. Like they need to support these frauds in numerous palaces and castles with a 1,000 rooms???? Obamawas born a British subject in Kenya and went right over to kiss up and HW Bush was knighted by the damn Queen after Desert Storm-Commander of the British Empire, CBE. Time for the third war against the Bank of England and the Rothchilds.

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rtinlizzie

I am sincerely impressed with your knowledge. How did you come to know all this & where can I find this info ? Are you a professor ? This doesn't sound like your average Hollywood-inspired conspiracy theory. Just can't get enough of people who know the real deal. Bravo to you for putting it out there.

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DINA DODD

WHAT STUFFY OLD PLACE TO LIVE WHEN YOU FIRST MARRIED LIVE WHERE YOU WANT NOT WHERE THEY WANT YOU TOO.

Yesterday at 9:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iceprincess

Why do people need such big houses? There's only two of them right now!! They seem really happy together which is a good thing and I look forward to watching their wedding!!

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