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- Prince William will have to give up his go-to mode of transportation around his new home
- The Prince of Wales has made headlines in recent years for his clever way of getting around
- Prince William moved to Forest Lodge with Kate Middleton and their three children in the fall, and it’s said to be their forever home
Prince William may be the future king, but even he has to abide by the local rules.
The Prince of Wales, 43, made headlines in recent years for cruising around Windsor Castle and the surrounding area on an electric scooter. However, he’ll likely have to find a new way to get around after his family recently relocated to Forest Lodge inside Windsor Great Park.
According to Windsor Great Park’s website, e-scooters and other motorized modes of transportation, such as hoverboards, are banned there.
“For reasons of safety and traffic management, we do not allow motorised transport within the Park. Aside from cyclists, the roads are reserved for residents and Estate workers,” the website states.
Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three children moved from Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Castle estate, where e-scooters are permitted. The royal heir used his to zip up to the castle for meetings and other gatherings there, including filming Apple TV’s The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy.
The Schitt’s Creek actor was taken aback by the royal’s mode of transportation in the episode, which aired in October.
“This is not what I was expecting,” Levy said with a laugh as Prince William appeared on an electric scooter. “This is your mode of transportation?”
“It is ’round here,” the royal replied with a grin, adding, It gets around quite nicely around here.”
Prince William also explained, “We live just outside the castle, but my father spends a lot of time here. We use the castle for work and meetings. And I’m always late, so I thought this was the way to keep my meetings on time.”
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The Prince and Princess of Wales’ family moved to Forest Lodge in the fall.
Prince William and Princess Kate moved their home base from Kensington Palace in London to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor three years ago, as they wanted to test the new location to see if it worked for their family. Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, started attending the nearby Lambrook School, and the location allows the royal couple to balance parenting with their royal duties.
Speaking at the Irish Guards’ St. Patrick’s Day parade last year, Princess Kate told soldiers, “We are in Windsor at the moment. We were in London but moved there for more green space. It’s close enough to London, not too far away.”
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Adelaide Cottage quickly became tied to some of the hardest chapters of William and Kate’s lives after they moved there in 2022. The house was the backdrop to Queen Elizabeth’s death in 2022, followed by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell docuseries and Harry’s memoir, Spare, published in 2023.
The following year brought more challenges. In February 2024, King Charles announced his cancer diagnosis, while Princess Kate shared her cancer news in March.
“Adelaide Cottage was a place of pain, suffering and sadness. After such rough times, it’s perfectly understandable they would want a new place,” Sally Bedell Smith, royal biographer behind the Royals Extra Substack, told PEOPLE.
Forest Lodge is said to be the family’s forever home, where they plan to stay even when Prince William accedes to the throne someday.
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