When William and Kate, the Princes of Wales and their three children slept at Adelaide Cottage in the park gardens of Windsor Palace, two masked robbers broke into the property inside the safest royal estate in the kingdom, next to his house, and they took a truck and agricultural machinery.
The Welsh were the closest inhabitants to the robbery, which made it clear that the thieves had visited the place before and exposed the safety of the heir to the throne and the future queen.
Thieves broke into Shaw Farm, a working farm inside the castle security zoneat night climbing the wall. They escaped with a truck and a quad (four-cycle) according to the police. The thieves used a stolen truck to break through through a security gate in the royal estate, reported The Sun newspaper, which obtained the scoop. No arrests have been made.
Next to your house
The incident it happened last month. William and Kate were sleeping at Adelaide Cottage with their children George, 11, Charlotte, nine, and Louis, six, when the robbers arrived at the farmhouse next to their house.
The wider Windsor Castle estate includes a working farm as well as Adelaide Cottage, where the Princes of Wales live. It is a house with only four bedrooms.
King Charles III was in Scotland during the robbery. He generally does not live in Windsor Palace but in his home at Clarence House, opposite Buckingham Palace in London. But since the beginning of his cancer, he prefers to live more isolated in Scotland and travel to London for his chemotherapy sessions. Queen Camilla is believed to have been at a spa in India, ahead of the couple’s tour of Australia and Samoa.
A Thames Valley Police spokesperson said: “At around 11.45pm on Sunday 13 October, we received a report of a burglary at a property, on land in Crown Estate, near the A308 in Windsor,” he explained.
“The criminals entered a farm building and took a black Isuzu truck and a red quad. They then headed towards the Old Windsor/Datchet area. “No arrests have been made at this stage and an investigation is ongoing,” the source said.
William and Kate moved into the cottage, which is about five minutes from the farm, in 2022. During Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral in September 2022, the procession to Windsor Castle began from the Shaw Farm gate.
They entered despite the alarms
A source said: “The thieves They should have known the vehicles were stored there before entering and knowing when was the best time to escape without being caught.”
“There are alarms at Windsor Castle. But the first time anyone found out there was a robbery was when they broke through the security barrier. It was a Sunday night, during a school week. “So the young princes and princesses would be sleeping in Adelaide Cottage, around the corner, but still inside the premises,” the source said.
“The barrier had to be replaced because it was badly damaged.” That is the door that the Prince of Wales and his family have often used.
He also lives in that “estate” Prince Andrew, Duke of York at the Royal Lodge and is located Frogmore Cottage the house that the queen he gave to Meghan and Harry, Dukes of Sussex, until their father evicted them. It is considered the safest place in the kingdom.