William Prince lease filing sets Forest Lodge rent at £307,200
William Prince and Kate Middleton have registered lease documents with the UK’s Land Registry showing they are paying £307,200 a year for Forest Lodge in Windsor. The filing places a market-rate figure on the eight-bedroom Georgian-style home, which sits in the 4,800-acre Windsor Great Park.
The papers also show that Forest Lodge has a main house and two cottages on the grounds used for staff. That gives the Windsor property a different profile from the grace-and-favor residences long associated with the wider area around Windsor Castle.
Forest Lodge Lease Papers
The registration comes with a rent figure that works out to around $410,000 a year, or north of 12 million pounds over a 30-year term. The documents identify William Prince and Middleton as the tenants, and the property’s setup suggests a larger household arrangement than a single residence alone would imply.
London’s The Times reported that the rent price followed valuations from Hamptons, Savills, and Knight Frank. Those valuations frame the rent as a market-rate lease rather than the low-cost arrangements that have drawn scrutiny elsewhere on the Windsor estate.
Royal Lodge Contrast
Royal Lodge is the clearest comparison. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor paid 1 million British pounds for the lease in 2003, later put in another 7.5 million pounds for renovations, and a 2025 Times of London report found that he had not made a standard rent payment for 20 years.
The lease at Royal Lodge required only one peppercorn a year if demanded. A June 5 report from the National Audit Office said he had sublet three residences on the grounds of Royal Lodge and received income from them until April of this year.
Windsor Great Park Filing
For William Prince and Middleton, the filing fixes the cost of a Windsor home close to Lambrook School in Ascot, where they accompany their children. The record also shows that the previous tenants of Forest Lodge were Alexander Fitzgibbons and his wife, Cristina Stenbeck.
That leaves a clear comparison for Windsor: one royal lease tied to a market price, another associated with a lease structure that drew public attention over rent terms and subletting income. The Forest Lodge papers now put the couple’s housing costs on the record in a way the Royal Lodge arrangement never did.
