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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n(Left) Kate Middleton on Oct. 14, 2025; (Right) Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park.<\/span>Credit :\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Samir Hussein\/WireImage; English Heritage\/Heritage Images\/Getty<\/p>\n Kate Middleton\u00a0can actually make a splash at her new home,\u00a0Forest Lodge.<\/p>\n Princess Kate,\u00a0Prince William,\u00a0and their three children\u00a0moved into the new house in October 2025, and the secluded property in Windsor Great Park reportedly offers a convenient feature that caters to one of her hobbies.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0Hello!\u00a0<\/em>magazine, Forest Lodge has access to a private lake \u2014 perfect for the Princess of Wales to go swimming.<\/p>\n Kate, 43, is famously sporty and\u00a0spoke about her love for \u201ccold swimming\u201d\u00a0while appearing on\u00a0The Good, The Bad & The Rugby\u00a0<\/em>podcast with Prince William and\u00a0Princess Anne\u00a0in 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cI love all sports. I really, generally love all sports. I love swimming. Cold swimming,\u201d the Princess of Wales said on the podcast co-hosted by Princess Anne\u2019s son-in-law,\u00a0Mike Tindall.<\/p>\n \u201cThe colder, the better,\u201d Prince William added.<\/p>\n \u201cThe colder, the better. I absolutely love it,\u201d she agreed. \u201cSlightly to the point where William\u2019s like, \u2018Catherine, you\u2019re crazy,\u2019 \u201d she said, laughing. \u201cAnd it\u2019s dark, and it\u2019s raining, and I\u2019ll go and seek out cold water.\u201d<\/p>\n Princess Kate may have gotten her husband in on the fun, as Prince William revealed in November that he\u00a0took the plunge with some cold water dips in Scotland.<\/p>\n \u201cYou feel great afterwards,\u201d the Prince of Wales, 43, told members of the Colwyn Bay Blue Tits cold water swimming group while visiting North Wales, the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n \u201cI love it. I do a lot of yelling and screaming when I get in,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The autumn move to Forest Lodge marked a fresh start for the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children,\u00a0Prince George, 12,\u00a0Princess Charlotte, 10, and\u00a0Prince Louis, 7, following a difficult few years for their family.<\/p>\n Their previous home,\u00a0Adelaide Cottage, also in Windsor, quickly became tied to some of the hardest chapters of their lives following their move there in 2022. Adelaide Cottage was the backdrop to\u00a0Queen Elizabeth\u2019s death that September, the turbulence that followed\u00a0Prince Harry\u00a0and\u00a0Meghan Markle\u2019s bombshell docuseries and Harry\u2019s memoir,\u00a0Spare<\/em>, published in 2023.<\/p>\n In early 2024,\u00a0King Charles\u00a0and Princess Kate both announced that they were diagnosed with cancer. The Princess of Wales announced in January 2025 that she is\u00a0in remission\u00a0and in December, the King, 77, shared the \u201cgood news\u201d that\u00a0his treatment can be reduced this year.<\/p>\n \u201cAdelaide Cottage was a place of pain, suffering and sadness. After such rough times, it\u2019s perfectly understandable they would want a new place,\u201d Sally Bedell Smith, royal biographer behind the\u00a0Royals Extra\u00a0Substack,\u00a0recently told PEOPLE in an exclusive cover story.<\/p>\n PEOPLE understands that\u00a0Forest Lodge is the Wales family\u2019s forever home\u00a0and where they intend to remain, even after William becomes king one day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kate Middleton\u2019s New Forest Lodge Home Has the Ideal Feature for One of Her Favorite Hobbies The Princess of Wales has previously joked that Prince William says she\u2019s \u201ccrazy\u201d for… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[272,415,459,474,358,456,236],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royal-news","tag-breaking","tag-charles","tag-jewels","tag-shower","tag-tribute","tag-ultimate","tag-william"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"SANDRINGHAM,](\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/sCgY4RVWwwUspnO_Fy6NwoRQccs=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(726x488:728x490):format(webp)\/Kate-Middleton-and-Prince-William-122525-7-49fcec4673cb4fb5bf94233d5b5b926e.jpg\")
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