Royal fans have rarely seen Prince William and Princess Kate's Kensington Palace residence. We only remember glimpses of their desk during zoom calls and meeting Barack and Michelle Obama in the palace's elegant living room (who could forget Prince George's tiny bathrobe?). But even though most of us never set foot inside the walls of their home, known as Apartment 1A, we do know certain details about its unconventional floor plan.

While many of us dream of a luxurious owner's suite on the second floor, it turns out that the Welsh couple, who moved to Windsor in 2022, flipped the script by taking a first-floor bedroom in the palace, according to OK! Before we imagine them locked in a dark dungeon-like room, let's set the record straight. The “apartments” at Kensington Palace are actually four floors of a luxurious home.

In 2020, royal writer Christopher Warwick detailed the palace's setting. He told True Royalty's Royal Beat, “All these royal residences at Kensington Palace are called apartments, and of course people immediately think they are flats, like American apartments.”

“Not so,” Warwick, who died in 2022, noted in the episode. 'If you think of Kensington Palace in a certain way, it's built around three courtyards. Think of them as wonderful red-brick terraced houses. They are all connected, but they are separate houses."

The bedrooms of the prince and princess join 19 more rooms in the apartment, according to Warwick, and the couple live in a house once owned by Princess Margaret.

Prince Harry did not comment specifically on the first-floor bedroom, but in his memoir, Spare, he wrote about visiting his brother and sister-in-law's newly renovated apartment with his wife, Meghan Markle.

“The wallpaper, the ceiling trim, the walnut bookshelves filled with gently colored books, the priceless works of art,” Harry wrote. 'Magnificent. It's like a museum.

He also recalled feeling “embarrassed” about “the IKEA lamps and the secondhand sofa I recently bought on sale on Sofa.com with Meg's credit card.”

As for the prince and princess's quirky bedroom, he said, “Downstairs suites may be the next fad in interior design.