William, Kate will move into Kensington Palace

Prince William and wife Kate Middleton, along with their newborn son Prince George, are set to move into their home at Kensington Palace this week after a £1.5 million overhaul of the property. William and Kate have spent the past fortnight at Balmoral with baby George, enjoying “quality time” with the Queen, Prince Philip, Charles and Camilla, the Daily Express reported. But as workmen put the finishing touches to the £1.5 million renovations that lasted for two years, the couple are returning to London to start family life in their first “proper” home. “They can’t wait,” a friend was quoted as saying by the Daily Express. “They are so looking forward to getting the place how they want it and being settled,” the friend said. Within days they will move into the four-storey 20-room apartment 1A, which once belonged to Princess Margaret, who died in 2002, the report said. It has five reception rooms, three main bedrooms, dressing rooms and bathrooms, a night and day nursery, staff bedrooms and “ancillary rooms”. Plenty of room in other words for the pair’s housekeeper, nanny, and Kate’s parents Michael and Carole or sister Pippa when they stay over to baby-sit.