The royals, who previously relocated to Adelaide Cottage in 2022, are preparing to move to Forest Lodge later this year

Prince William and Kate Middleton met in 2001 as first-year students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and when they actually began dating might have been far earlier than the public realized.

But soon after the family moved to their new home, things changed again. Queen Elizabeth died, just as Kate Middleton and Prince William landed in the dwelling. “It was not exactly the settling-in period they had hoped for,” a source said of that period in the Waleses’ lives.