The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge may currently reside at sprawling Norfolk estate Amner Hall, but they were once destined to up sticks and move just outside of the West Country, to the rural county of Herefordshire. Prince Charles, who lives around 40 minutes away from Bristol at Highgrove House near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, was set to build a grand country house for his eldest son and daughter-in-law in the West Midlands county of Herefordshire.
Prince Charles knocked the plans on the head just last year, Gloucestershire Live reports, nearly two decades after he started drawing them up. The heir to the throne hoped to boast a triumphal arch at the magnificent mansion, where proposed residents Kate and William would be able to raise their family in the countryside, between the city of Hereford and the town of Ross-on-Wye.
Last year, Prince Charles' Duchy of Cornwall confirmed that work at the 900-acre Harewood End Estate had finished, despite the fact that the mansion had not been rebuilt. The Duchy acquired the run down estate 22 years ago, and began working determinedly on renovating the farmhouses, cottages and other agricultural buildings in 2003.
