Journalists showed the house where Kate Middleton grew up

The Duchess of Cambridge spent her childhood on a very expensive estate located in a picturesque English village

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After the engagement of Kate Middleton and Prince William was announced in 2010, journalists rushed to find out everything that was known about the bride of the future heir to the British throne. However, only recently did the media find out how much the ancestral nest of the Middleton family cost and how it looks from the inside. About it writes Express.

Carol and Michael Middleton, parents of Kate, Pippa and James, raised their children in Berkshire. In the picturesque English village of Bucklebury. These are the villages that they love to be shown in British detective series.

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Bucklebury is located just an hour’s drive from Windsor Castle, which explains the high price of real estate here. So, Kate’s parents moved to the village when Kate was 13 years old. They bought the Oak Acre home for an impressive £ 1.5 million. And this despite the fact that the house is very modest in appearance.

The Middleton estate was worth six times the average British home, which starts at £ 249,000. Recall that the average salary in the UK is 31,461 pounds sterling.

The Oak Acre is a red brick Georgian mansion surrounded by traditional English lawns, and the entire estate occupies an acre and a half. The house is surrounded by hedges, an English-style garden, century-old oak trees and a gate block the way to it.

It was they who were besieged by journalists when they learned that Kate had become the prince’s bride. And here a whole detachment of policemen was on duty. However, now it is quiet here, and Bucklebury was recently rated as “the best place to live in England.”

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But Kate’s parents now rarely appear in the village, embarrassed by the attention of the press, they left the estate. But they continue to maintain relations with the villagers. We will remind, at the wedding of Kate and William was attended even by the local butcher and the owner of the pub.

Now there are persistent rumors that the Dukes of Cambridge and their family may well move here in the near future. After all, it is much more comfortable here than in the royal residences. And George, Charlotte and Louis, when they grow up, will be able to attend Marlborough College – the prestigious educational institution where Princess Eugenie studied.

We will remind, earlier Focus talked about residences in which are members of the royal family Great Britain. And collected list of real palaces and castleswhich can be purchased now. And feel like a real monarch.

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