21 October 2023 , 09:00
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The Prince and Princess of Wales along with their children are among some of the most famous people in the world - and they take their privacy seriously.
But this puts them in a tricky situation when they stay at their official London residence of Kensington Palace. Not only is it their home, but it is also a top tourist attraction with thousands of visitors each year flocking to tour its grand staterooms and see its ever-changing fascinating exhibitions.
Of course, Kate and William's private quarters of the palace within Apartment 1A are strictly off-limits to the visiting public. But it seems they go to great lengths to ensure their privacy elsewhere in the palace - and it has been uncovered by a royal fan on Tik Tok. Laura-Ann Barr discovered that tourists can't even get as much as a sneak peek into their private garden due to a special trick.
It is all down to partially frosted windows that look out on to the garden. The fan wrote: "I'm at the Kensington Palace tour! Look at the secret windows they have that make sure you can't see into Kate & Will's private garden to the right. They have it on all the windows in this room."
William and Kate have only shared small glimpses inside their home at Kensington Palace in the past such as when Barack and Michelle Obama visited - although their sleeping quarters strictly off-limits. However, they did once give an insight into what the bedrooms of Prince George and Princess Charlotte might look like.
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During a visit to Sweden's national museum of architecture and design in Stockholm in 2018, they revealed they had some Ikea furniture. Marcus Engman, the company's head of design, said they told him that they had some of the company's furniture for Prince George and Princess Charlotte's own rooms.
William, Kate and Prince Harry in the Drawing Room of Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace with Barack and Michelle Obama (Getty Images)However, despite it being the Waleses home along with Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, Kensington Palace is also home to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry also used to live there, in Nottingham Cottage, before moving to Windsor, and then Canada and LA.
Speaking about Kensington Palace on True Royalty's Royal Beat, the late royal author Christopher Warwick said: "It has 20 rooms from the basement to the attic, it is not a small house. All of these royal residences at Kensington Palace are called apartments, which of course makes people immediately think they are flats like the American term for an apartment. They are not. If you think of Kensington Place in a way it is built around three courtyards. If you kind of think of them as being these wonderful red brick terrace houses. Because they are all joined, but separate houses."