Philip Collins
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)It’s a familiar conundrum to Londoners of a certain age. You’re approaching a milestone birthday like a 40th. There are the schools to think of and city life can be so pressured, especially while the rail strikes are on. The house prices are crazy; your money gets you so much more a little further out. There’s less traffic and the children would love all that green space. Yet, deep down, you know it doesn’t make sense.
Yet this weekend one more family announced an intention to move west out of London into the Berkshire countryside. William and Catherine of Kensington are taking their children George and Charlotte out of school in Battersea and are moving, along with their younger son, Louis, to a pile on the Queen’s estate near Windsor.
