Live Next Door to Prince William and Kate Middleton for £20,000 per Week
The 4,100-square-foot apartment next to Kensington Palace is also just steps from Hyde Park and is near Freddie Mercury’s home
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Living next to British royals comes at a premium, and in this case, the price is £20,000 (US$26,527) per week.
The London apartment, which neighbours Kensington Palace, home to Prince William and Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, hit the rental market on Tuesday.
Its exclusive Palace Green address also puts it near Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park.
Courtesy of Harrods Estates
“Palace Green is famous for its privacy and security, with some of the most prestigious homes in the city,” Sarah McIntyre, head of rentals at Harrods Estates, said in a statement. “The area combines luxurious amenities, lush green spaces, and a rich sense of history, making it one of the most sought-after addresses in Prime Central London.”
Located on the second floor—accessible via elevator—the apartment spans 4,126 square feet. It has four en-suite bedrooms and an additional room that could serve as either a fifth bedroom, a home office or a more informal living space, according to the listing with Harrods Estates. The spare room features a half-bath.
Interior details include parquet flooring, crown mouldings and a sleek modern kitchen. The home also has an air-cooling system—a rare amenity in the U.K.—and a spacious private terrace.
In addition to the plethora of green spaces the Kensington neighbourhood offers, the building has communal gardens for residents. It also has underground parking and 24-hour concierge services.
“The building was the first project in London to introduce hotel-style concierge services to apartment living when it was built in the 1990s,” McIntyre told Mansion Global.
Kensington has a history of notable residents, including Winston Churchill and Freddie Mercury , and it consistently tops the list for London’s priciest areas.
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The 25-room mansion was built for an heiress and later belonged to a socialite and architect on the Empire State Building.
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A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag.
The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five accessory dwelling in the alpines of Evergreen was relisted on Friday asking $16.8 million, down from its initial $26.8 million price in 2023.
The sellers, Richard and Pamela Bard, who paid $1.3 million for the “legacy property” named Greystone Estate in 1992, have shopped it around on and off for the past 20 years, according to agent Jessica Northrop at Compass Real Estate.
Richard Bard, CEO of his own private equity firm, has “hosted many corporate events and retreats where important business is discussed but they are also able to relax,” Northrop said. “Greystone has a special way of making people feel at ease.”
Bard said “it’s not a casual effort” to sell. He said it’s difficult to find a buyer with the facilities to “take care of it.”
The Bards intend to move closer to their children in Denver.
Before the Bards, Greystone Estate had several eras—as a summer house, a guest ranch and a business base—since it was built in 1915 by Genevieve Phipps, an industrialist’s daughter.
Phipps, who spent her inheritance on the land, built the 54-acre summer escape with the “elegance and feel of a fine Adirondack mansion combined with a mountain rustic style,” according to an online record of the estate’s history.
Its heyday, arguably in the 1940s to 1980s, saw Sinatra, Johnson and Groucho Marx come through its doors, when its owner William Sandifer, a socialite and one the Empire State Building’s architects, operated a guest ranch out of the place.
The Bards, who used a carriage house on the property as their company headquarters, completed Greystone’s full modernization in 1997. They also opened up the living and dining areas to receive more light, raised the ceiling on the upper level and combined several rooms to create a primary suite.
They replaced an outdoor pavilion and its helipad with something more suitable for their daughter’s wedding in 2001, according to Northrop.
The main 25-room manor includes a wine cellar, bar, gym and library.
The additional structures, which include a cottage, a log cabin, a pool house, a carriage house and a pavilion and guest house, surround the pool area and overlook acres of aspen groves and mountains.
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