The Prince and Princess of Wales are currently planning a move from Adelaide Cottage to Forest Lodge in Windsor, but as well as their rural base, they retain use of Apartment 1A inside Kensington Palace to use with their three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. Despite being called an apartment, the 20-room, four-storey property is rather large and impressive and has been a home for the family since 2017.

It previously belonged to Princess Margaret, and it boasts five reception rooms, three main bedrooms, dressing rooms, a night and day nursery, and staff quarters. Features inside include underfloor heating, encrypted Wi-Fi, a TV projector and a panic room.

Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank, along with their two sons, August and Ernest, split their time between the UK and Portugal.

The humble Ivy Cottage within palace walls is where they call home. The chocolate-box cottage is picture-perfect from the outside with a white picket fence, climbing roses and white Georgian windows.

Prince Michael and Princess Michael live in Apartment 10 at Kensington Palace, a five-bedroom, five-reception room apartment. The couple have lived in the palace since the seventies and were once neighbours with Princess Diana, who lived next door at combined Apartment 8 and 9.

The Kents, who retired from public duties in 2022, came under fire in the 2000s when it was revealed that they did not pay rent. Her Late Majesty had been paying her cousin’s £120,000 rent, while he and his wife only took care of the weekly utility bill. Members of parliament demanded that they start paying their £10,000-a-month market-rate rent in 2002.

Princess Diana raised her sons Prince William and Prince Harry inside the palace and they attended nursery and junior school nearby, before going to Eton College.

According to biographer Andrew Morton, the palace was a “children’s paradise” with its long passageways, a helicopter pad and many outdoor gardens, including one on the roof where the family spent many hours.

The late princess even lived in Apartments 8 and 9 after her divorce from the then-Prince Charles.

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle first moved in together, they lived at Nottingham Cottage. Unlike some of the grander rooms at Kensington Palace, the cottage, also known as Nott Cott, boasts only two bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen.

Speaking about the home in his Netflix docu-series, Harry & Meghan, Harry joked: “As far as people were concerned, we were living in a palace. We were. In a cottage.” Meghan said: “It was just a chapter in our lives where I don’t think anyone could believe what it was actually like behind the scenes.”