Queen Elizabeth II will make Windsor Castle in Berkshire her permanent home and main official residence, without returning fully to Buckingham Palace in London.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Queen will only return to London for occasional engagements, and she reportedly has not spent a night at the palace since March 2020.
It was gathered that the monarch, 95, who has lived at the palace for most of her 70-year reign, has come to prefer life at Windsor Castle, where she has spent much of the past two years since leaving London to isolate with Prince Philip at the start of the pandemic, until his death in April last year.
Windsor was previously only the Queen’s weekend home and her residence for Easter and Royal Ascot week in June.
“Windsor is the place she loves. She has her memories with Prince Philip there, she has her ponies there and family nearby. It makes sense,” Royal author Hugo Vickers told The Sunday Times.
The development will leave Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall as the next members of the Royal Family to take up residence at Buckingham Palace as King and Queen Consort.
