Prince William and Kate Middleton have minimal staff working at their home at Adelaide Cottage, a four-bedroom residence the Wales family of five moved into back in 2022.
There is no live-in staff, but a nanny, gardener, and housekeeper are on the grounds frequently.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strict rule that they require staff to abide by so as to protect their kids Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.
Prince William and Kate Middleton keep the staff as light as possible around their four-bedroom home, Adelaide Cottage, in Windsor. But the staff they do have are required to follow “one strict rule in order to protect their three children,” according to The Mirror.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis have no staff living with them at home, but they do have a nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrllo, around them frequently, as well as a housekeeper and a gardener, the outlet reported. There is also a team based at their parents’ office at Kensington Palace, where the Wales family of five used to live before moving out to Windsor in 2022.
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Kate Middleton, Prince William, Prince George, Prince Louis, and Princess Charlotte
In a recent job posting for the housekeeping role, the position was described as an “exciting opportunity” to work for the Prince and Princess of Wales and “join a supportive and positive team.” But there is a strict zero tolerance policy for gossiping, with William and Kate specifying that applicants had to be skilled at “maintaining confidentiality and exercising discretion” (which, of course, makes sense).
According to Valentine Low, author of Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown, an employee said that casual wear is preferred around the Wales family and that formal attire is actually frowned upon (via The Sun).
“The kids run around the office, and he [William] does not want it to be stuffy,” a source told Low. “If we have important meetings or are going to Buckingham Palace, then of course we [dress up].”
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Prince William, Prince George, Prince Louis, Princess Kate, and Princess Charlotte attend the 2024 Christmas morning service at St. Mary Magdalene Church
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Prince William, Prince George, Prince Louis, Kate Middleton, and Princess Charlotte on May 5, 2025
In an effort to keep George, Charlotte, and Louis’ childhoods as normal as possible at home, Adelaide Cottage has no royal butler, and royal biographer Robert Hardman wrote in his book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story that “The couple did not seek to boost the staff members at Adelaide Cottage, not least because there would be little room to do so. Reports that the prince was hiring a valet were knocked back.”
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Prince George, Kate Middleton, Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis on the Buckingham Palace balcony on June 17, 2023
“The Kensington Palace team does include a ‘yeoman,’ a multitasking attendant who looks after everything from luggage to uniforms, but there is no ‘gentleman’s gentleman’ on the staff,” Hardman continued. “And certainly no butler. It’s very much them at home with the kids.”
A source previously said of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ family life that “I think it would surprise people to see how ordinary things are at home. The children help with laying the table, clearing their plates when they’ve finished eating, and tidying up. There’s no preferential treatment.”
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